Case Law
Untrained worker suffers fatal injury on sixth day at work
Failure to reduce the risk of entrapment in operating machinery
Worker suffers fatal injuries after fall through uncovered penetration
Company slapped with prohibition notice and improvement notice
Company’s safety system found to be seriously deficient
Stop bullying orders made against a company’s Body Corporate Committee, Acting Chairman and Treasurer
Failure to install interlocked guarding on plant results in amputation injury
When companies fail to implement appropriate safety measures
Food manufacturer has penalty increased on appeal
Mining company’s failure to install guard on machinery results in injury
Morning Star Gold N.L. (the company) operates a small-scale vertical shaft mine. On 6 November 2020, an employee operated a double-drum scraper to scrape
Failure to consult relevant standards or a competent person
Designer Built Homes is a building company that was engaged to erect a hoarding along the perimeter of a building site. The site ran alongside a pedestrian footpath.
Electrical fault costs a life and $1.5 million
On 12 November 2018, an electrical arc flash (or fault) event occurred at a 6.6kV high-voltage circuit breaker in Stage 2, Unit 3 of the power plant of energy supplier and retailer Energy Australia Yallourn.
Company fined $550,000 despite a good safety record
Supagas Pty Ltd is a supplier of prefilled industrial/LPG gas cylinders. On 1 December 2017, an individual attended the Supagas’ site to collect one acetylene gas cylinder and one oxygen gas cylinder.