A plastic packaging manufacturer has been convicted and fined $90,000 — and ordered to pay $5966 in costs — after a worker’s index finger was severed in a granulator that had been recently acquired by the company to grind rejected plastic products into smaller particles for re-use. The incident... Read more.

After a worker was fatally crushed in a conveyor belt at Lethbridge, Victoria, a poultry farm operator has been convicted and fined $325,000. The company had a conveyor system installed to transport chicken manure from underneath various cages inside a shed at the farm, including a horizontal conveyor belt... Read more.

A manufacturing company has pledged to spend $170,800 to improve health and safety outcomes after a worker’s arm was injured while cleaning machinery at a Wangaratta factory. The incident occurred in June 2023. Two workers were directed to clean a machine that featured two applicator rollers positioned in a... Read more.

A worker’s life-changing injuries at a commercial bakery have exposed fundamental safety failures that WorkSafe says are far too common across New Zealand workplaces. The worker’s hand was pulled into machine rollers at French Bakery in Christchurch in April 2023. His index finger was amputated, thumb partially amputated, and... Read more.

On Monday 1 December, after pleading guilty to a single charge of failing to provide or maintain safe plant and safe systems of work, Kurdeez Minerals Pty Ltd was sentenced in the Warrnambool Magistrates’ Court. The operator of a Timboon lime quarry’s has conviction and fine of $100,000 (with... Read more.