An employer that allowed a substation where a double fatality occurred to be used as a storeroom has been fined for access and egress breaches, while the Department of Defence has been charged with three category 2 WHS breaches, after a man's leg was amputated.
An employer negligently relied on a very experienced and highly regarded worker to perform his tasks safely, a court has found in awarding the worker nearly $1 million in injury damages.
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The first of four entities charged after a teenage worker died has been fined over a supervisor's failure to tackle non-conformance issues. Meanwhile, a major employer that failed to implement its documented unloading procedures has been fined after a delivery driver was run over by mobile plant - twice.
A coronial inquest into the death of a worker addicted to the opioid oxycodone, prescribed for an ankle injury, has heard the treatment of chronic pain should focus on patients' mental health rather than "numbing" their symptoms.
An employer whose systems supported an injured worker's "postural breaks", has escaped liability for her claim that it returned her to work too early after a work injury, incapacitating her.
An employer's safety systems were sufficient to absolve it of liability for a falling object and an employee's spinal injury, which was caused by another company's negligence, a court has found.
An employer that failed to act on a series of safety warning signs has been fined $250,000, after a worker inadvertently activated the controls on an elevated work platform (EWP) and was crushed to death.
