A meat manufacturing and distribution company has been fined $60,000 after a worker had fingers amputated by the moving blade in a meat slicer. The incident The incident occurred on 13 December 2022, when a worker in company conducting a business in the manufacture and distribution of meat products... Read more.
After a worker had a finger amputated due to using unguarded machinery, a packaging manufacturer has been convicted and fined $80,000. The incident The incident occurred in February 2023, when a worker operating machinery that produces bubble wrap envelopes through a series of rollers, folding mechanisms, heat sealing machines... Read more.
Courts have imposed more than $800,000 in penalties since mid-March, in response to workers being killed on unsafe conveyor belts in the manufacturing industry. Timaru director Sean Sloper and his company Point Lumber Limited are the latest to be jointly sentenced over the death of a young worker, Ethyn... Read more.
Following separate investigations by Energy Safe Victoria and WorkSafe Victoria into the death of an apprentice electrician working unsupervised in 2021, two lift companies have been fined. Facing Victoria’s Supreme Court on 27 June, Nordic Elevator Services Pty Ltd and Nordic Elevators Pty Ltd were ordered to pay $30,000 and $20,000 after pleading... Read more.
In Western Australia, a hay processing company has been fined $595,000 after a worker’s leg became trapped in the cutting chamber of a hay press. The incident occurred in January 2023 at a hay processing plant at Carani in the Wheatbelt. Operating the small hay press was a leading... Read more.
