A Shepparton fruit packing company has been convicted and fined $150,000 on appeal for a scalping incident in 2015. A backpacker employee was cleaning the underside of a conveyor belt in November 2015 when her hair was caught in a drive shaft. The machine was unguarded and workers were... Read more.

A meat exporter and a labour hire company have been fined a combined $105,000, after a man’s arm was injured by a factory meat processor in 2014. The Hunter Valley-based meat exporter and a Newcastle labour hire company both pleaded guilty to failing to protect the health and safety... Read more.

A Melbourne cardboard carton manufacturer has been fined $42,000 and ordered to pay $5,867 in costs for safety failings. The company was fined after pleading guilty in the Werribee Magistrates’ Court to four charges of failing to maintain plant and equipment that was safe and without risks to health.... Read more.

A railway operator has been charged after an apprentice was burnt while working on overhead powerlines. Metro Trains Melbourne Pty Ltd was on Friday charged with failing to maintain systems of work that were safe and without risks to health. WorkSafe Victoria charged the Melbourne train operator following an... Read more.

The electrical contractor responsible for a young worker’s death when he was electrocuted in a workplace incident in February 2012 has been sentenced to seven years’ jail time. The 20-year-old victim was electrocuted when the electrician failed to turn off the power to a sub-board he was helping to... Read more.