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Home >> Publications >> Prosecutions Summary of Some Recent OHS ProsecutionsRecent prosecutions in Queensland
[ Top ] Recent prosecutions in New South WalesLarge supermarket chain - fined $105,000: worker crushed arm. Details Paint company, Padstow - fined $90,000: worker crushed, seriously injured. Details Large fast food chain - fined $180,000: worker left paraplegic. Details Shire Council - fined $159,500: fatal fall. Details [ Top ] Recent prosecutions in VictoriaExcavation company - fined $25,000: trench collapsed, worker severely injured. Details Roofing company - fined $3,000: apprentice fell from roof, seriously
injured. Details Cold storage company, Laverton North - fined $50,000 - company
director placed on a good behaviour bond and fined $4,000: young workers
exposed to dangerous fumes. Details Pre-cast concrete panel manufacturer, Shepparton - fined $25,000:
worker crushed to death. Details [ Top ] Recent Prosecutions in South AustraliaThe 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. [ Top ] Recent Prosecutions in Western AustraliaConstruction company - fined $40,000, its director fined $25,000 and an employee fined $1,000: death by electrocution. Details Metal products manufacturing business - fined $7,500 plus costs: finger amputation, caught in machine. Details Furniture manufacturing business - fined $5,000 plus costs: finger amputation, caught in machine. Details [ Top ] References
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