A major employer has failed, on appeal, to reduce an injured worker's weekly benefits to nil during its annual shutdown on the basis that she would not have been paid had she not been injured.
A worker who was injured by a five-second recreational activity on a work trip has been blocked from pursuing her case in an appeals court, in a decision examining the interaction of injury and industrial relations laws.
An employer's regular servicing regime, which exceeded a manufacturer's recommendations, has helped it defeat a worker's claim that his disabling injuries arose from driving a work vehicle with worn-down suspension.
An employer has been ordered to pay a worker nearly $800,000 in damages for negligently providing him with a faulty vehicle seat and causing his debilitating back injury, with a court rejecting claims that his case was defeated by scientific research.
A worker's exchange with inadequately trained supervisors in the aftermath of a violent altercation aggravated his PTSD from the incident, a court has found in ordering his employer to pay him more than $350,000 in damages.
An injured worker has been ordered by a superior court to have his vibration syndrome assessed by two independent specialist physicians, with special allowances for the COVID-19 pandemic. The court rejected the worker's bid to have his employer's mobile plant assessed by a vibration expert.
A high-profile WHS executive told a widow her husband caused his own death through his wilful failure to follow a work method statement, but he didn't tell her his company, John Holland Group Pty Ltd, had identified an urgent need to overhaul the instructions and training provided to workers like her husband, a court has heard.
A tribunal has rejected a worker's claim that she continued to suffer from a 2007 work injury because surgery that alleviated her condition permanently "changed the architecture" of her spine.
A worker's successful claim that her psych injury arose from being treated unreasonably by management, after she was transferred to a worksite she didn't want to go to, has been overturned on appeal.
