Workplace Accidents and Incidents

A falling object has crushed a worker's pelvis during an accident involving a crane at Darwin's industrial port area.

Rescue teams in Chile are working to reach five trapped workers at the world's largest underground copper mine after a tremor caused tunnel collapses. 

A study of quad bike deaths on farms over the past 20 years finds rollover and crush protection is leading to fewer fatalities, especially in Victoria.

New figures from Queensland's workers' insurance agency reveal the majority of those relate to people riding an e-scooter on their way to-and-from work.

Legal counsel for a southern NSW abattoir has been accused of failing to accept full blame for its own failures that led to a worker losing a foot in a meat auger.

Carpenter Terry Dunn suffered life-changing injuries, including a fractured skull, six broken ribs and a punctured lung when he fell through a doorway and into the pool at a work site in 2021.

Experienced tradesman Gerard Dezoete died after falling from a scissor lift on a construction site in central Launceston in 2020. The company contracting him has been cleared of all but one safety breach.

A young West Australian father's organs have been donated after a tragic farming accident left him with a severe brain injury.

Work has been suspended at the Clarke Creek Wind Farm in central Queensland following the death of 27-year-old man.

At least 36 people have been killed and about three dozen injured in a massive explosion and fire at a pharmaceutical factory in India.

In 2016, Linda Moussa's parter died after a falling at a worksite, with negligence later pinned as a driving factor. After receiving a financial boost from the government, SafeWork NSW is hoping to hold employers accountable for breaking safety laws.

With the help of laser sensors, drones and a robot dog, workers are preparing to re-enter one of Queensland's largest steelmaking coal mines one year on from an underground fire.

A video from the home migrants working in the NSW Riverina region under the PALM scheme shows an infestation of cockroaches. Supplied: Paul Maytom

Paramedics were unable to save the man reportedly trapped under equipment in the Newcastle Airport precinct.

The man died on a rural worksite in what's believed to be a new housing estate north of Melbourne.

Yallourn Power Station, considered the region's most unreliable, has been forced to put one of its units offline for weeks after an air duct collapsed.

The NSW Coalition sides with unions to delay the Labor government's workers' compensation reforms over a measure that would have made it harder to claim long-term compensation for psychological injuries.

A Supreme Court judge has dismissed a Darwin construction company's bid to overturn a $550,000 fine it received after one of its employees was killed on a remote worksite in 2020.

South Australia's work safety agency is examining the circumstances surrounding the collapse of a stone wall that claimed the life of a 46-year-old man on a property in the Barossa region.

The department is set to face court a year after the fatal fire at Slacks Creek, which claimed the life of firefighter Izzy Nash.