WorkSafe New Zealand is again warning businesses to be on alert for the dangers of moving machinery, after a worker had his arm amputated on the job at a concrete manufacturer in Manawatū. The victim was working at Dunlop Drymix Limited in Feilding early one morning in November 2021.... Read more.
Plastic food packaging manufacturer SCS Packaging Pty Ltd has been fined $30,000 after a maintenance fitter’s hand was crushed in a machine in 2020. The Shepparton-based company pleaded guilty to failing to ensure, so far as reasonably practicable, that the workplace was safe and without risks to health. It... Read more.
A teenage worker needed three fingers partly amputated when his summer holiday job went horribly wrong in a workplace incident with a leading stone fruit producer in Central Otago. Matthew Nevill, who was 19 at the time, was trying to fix a chain on a conveyor belt at Clyde... Read more.
A teenage worker needed three fingers partly amputated when his summer holiday job went horribly wrong in a workplace incident with a leading stone fruit producer in Central Otago. Matthew Nevill, who was 19 at the time, was trying to fix a chain on a conveyor belt at Clyde... Read more.
Melton exhaust system manufacturer MPI Global Pty Ltd has been convicted and fined $40,000 after a worker had four fingers amputated while using inadequately guarded machinery. The company pleaded guilty to one charge of failing to provide or maintain plant that was safe and without risks to health. The... Read more.
