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.

Energy Safe Victoria has reminded electrical workers to never work live after an electrician was hospitalised with burns from an explosion in the switchboard he was working on. The licensed electrical worker was at a Clifton Hill property on Tuesday, 4 July when he pierced a live cable with... Read more.