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Workplace Health & Safety Queensland Prosecutions
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PENALTY |
INJURY & CAUSE |
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Smelter, Gladstone
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Fined $40,000
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Head injuries
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Pipe line laying company, Sunshine Coast
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Fined $30,000 (plus $10,000 costs)
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Death, as a result of a trench collapse
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Meat processing company, Coominya
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Fined $7,000
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Injured arm, caught in conveyor belt rollers.
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Packing company, Geebung
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Fined $12,000
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Part of fingers amputated, caught in machine.
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Dive company, North Queensland
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Fined $6,000 & director fined $1,000
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Death of a tourist, as a result of a fatal seizure.
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Plumbing and drainage company, Hamilton
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Fined $40,000 (plus costs of $16,300) and its executive officer
placed on an $8000, 18-month good behaviour bond
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Death, as a result of a fall.
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Pet food manufacturer, Yandina
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Owner fined $7,500
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Part of arm amputated, caught in machine.
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Seed sorting and distribution company, Central Queensland
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Fined $35,000 (plus costs of $1,400)
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Severe injury as a result of a fall.
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Cruise company, North Queensland
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Fined $125,000 (plus costs of $24,100)
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Double fatality due to asphyxiation.
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Pet food processer, Roma
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Fined $20,000 (plus costs of $1,900)
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Amputation of part of arm, caught in machine.
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Accommodation company
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Fined $17,500
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Severed toe, caught in mower.
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Port Authority
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Fined $13,000
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Electric shock.
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National pizza company
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Fined $15,000
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Injured hand, caught in machine.
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Marine Company - Coomera |
Fined $45,000 |
Grievous Bodily Harm |
Details |
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Australian Water Systems |
Fined $37,000 |
Grievous Bodily Harm |
Details |
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Burdekin Engineering Works
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Fined $ 50,000 |
Fatality |
Details |
Other Workplace Health & Safety Qld - Prosecutions
2006
to 2007
2007
to 2008
2008
to 2009
2009
to 2010
Qld Marine Company fined:
Details
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Prosecutions in New South Wales
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Large supermarket chain |
Fined $105,000 |
Worker crushed arm. |
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| Paint company, Padstow
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Fined $180,000 |
Worker left paraplegic |
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| Large fast food chain
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Fined $180,000 |
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Shire Council |
Fined $159,500 |
Fatal Fall |
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Prosecutions in Victoria
| Excavation company |
Fined
$25,000 |
Trench
collapsed, worker severely injured |
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| Roofing company |
Fined
$3,000 |
Apprentice
fell from roof, seriously injured |
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Pre-cast concrete panel manufacturer Shepparton |
Fined
$25,000 |
Worker
crushed to death |
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| Cold storage company, Laverton North |
Fined $50,000 |
Company director placed on a good behavior bond and fined $4,000:
young workers exposed to dangerous fumes. |
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Prosecutions in South Australia
The following prosecutions instigated by Workplace Services under the
Occupational Health, Safety and Welfare Act (OHS&W) 1986, were proven
by the SA Industrial Court.
Furniture manufacturer - fined $22,500 (not including costs) for failing to provide a
safe system of work, resulting in an employee's hand being severed while
using a wood saw.
Clothing manufacturer - fined $19,000 (not including costs) for failing to provide and
adequately maintain plant in a safe condition, and failing to provide
adequate supervision, resulting in an employee's hand being caught and
severed in an unguarded chain and sprocket on a knitting machine.
Demolition / earthmoving contractor fined $3,375 (not including costs)
for failing to take reasonable care to avoid adversely affecting the safety
of other persons (the public) resulting in the structural remnants of
a demolished building collapsing onto Port Road at Albert Park.
Machining company - fined $14,000 (not including costs) for failing to
provide and maintain a safe system of work and failing to maintain plant
in a safe condition, resulting in an employee's fingers being crushed
in the unguarded nip points of a power press.
Water utility - fined $12,500 (not including costs) for failing to provide
and maintain a safe system of work and training in the safe operation
of cranes resulting in employees being exposed to risk of injury during
the attempted removal of a concrete sump.
Masonry paving manufacturer - fined $8,600 (not including costs) for failing
to provide safe systems of work, adequate guarding, adequate visibility,
adequate training and supervision and notification of an accident after
an incident in which an employee's hand was crushed in an automatic brick-stacking
machine.
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Prosecutions in Western Australia
| Construction company |
Company fined
$40,000
Director fined $25,000
Employee fined
$1,000 |
Death
by electrocution |
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| Metal products manufacturing business
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Fined $7,500 plus costs |
Finger
amputation, caught in machine |
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| Furniture manufacturing business |
Fined $5,000 plus costs |
Finger
amputation, caught in machine |
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Prosecutions in Tasmania
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