A man died Tuesday morning after becoming trapped in a machine at a Welshpool manufacturing company where he worked. Paramedics rushed to the scene shortly before 10.00am after reports the man’s arm was trapped in machinery. It is understood the man’s arm became trapped in a large industrial mixer.... Read more.

The Court of Appeal dismissed a Dingley-based engineering company’s appeal over fines imposed for different work safety incidents. The company pleaded guilty in the County Court in August to two charges of failing to provide or maintain plant and systems of work that were so far as reasonably practicable,... Read more.

A WA farming company and a director were fined a total of $35,000 in the Moora Magistrates Court last week, following a workplace incident in which an employee had parts of three fingers amputated by an auger hopper. The company and the director both pleaded guilty to failing to... Read more.

Nelson Pine Industries Limited has been fined $45,000 and ordered to pay reparation of $10,000 after one of its workers was injured while trying to clear a log jam on a conveyor belt by hand. The worker was trying to clear a log jam in August 2014 when he... Read more.

The Bunbury Magistrates Court has fined a local electrical contracting company and one of its employees a total of $44,800, following a 2013 incident, where an 18-year-old trades assistant was electrocuted while working on a roof. The company was fined $38,000 after pleading guilty to failing to provide and... Read more.