Case Law - Health & Safety Handbook (Page 10)

Case Law

Worker suffers serious facial injuries from angle grinder kickback

Bonaccord Ingram Co Pty Ltd (the Company) operated a vegetable production and logistics company in Victoria. As part of maintenance work at one of the Company’s sites, workers were required to operate angle grinders, which carried a high risk of serious injury due

Lack of guarding on plant results in injury

Heritage Seeds Pty Ltd (Company) is a seed distribution company that coats each of its seeds in a chemical mixture before distribution.

Two workers are seriously injured when a scaffold collapses

Spotless Facility Services contracted MPMG FM Pty Limited (Company) to manage facilities maintenance at Heathcote High School for a painting job.

Workers threatened with dismissal after raising health and safety concerns

Patrick Stevedores Holdings Pty Ltd (Company) operated a port in Hastings, Victoria. In February 2009, a client of the Company delivered 800 steel coils to a warehouse at the port, so that the coils could be loaded onto vessels.

Company director dies after falling from unsafe roof

A division of W.F. Montague Pty Ltd (Company) specialises in temperature-controlled storage and inventory management. The Company contracted Commercial and Industrial Refrigeration Services Pty Ltd (CIRS)

A company ignoring a risk results in a worker sustaining serious injuries

On 14 July 2015, Deicorp Pty Ltd (Company) and Rock Form Group Pty Ltd (Rock Form) entered into an agreement for Rock Form to supply, erect and dismantle all formwork on the Company’s construction site.

Three businesses fail to control risks to members of the public

Veolia Environmental Services (Australia) Pty Ltd (Veolia) and Visy Paper Pty Ltd (Visy) provided waste management services at a Hungry Jacks Pty Ltd (Hungry Jacks) outlet.

Crushed fingers cost company more than $110,000

An employee of the Company was instructed to fold channels in sheet metal using a 100-tonne capacity press. The channels were not folding at the correct angles and the supervisor failed to rectify this issue.

Poor safety practices result in $80,000 fine

Timber Imagineering Pty Ltd (the Company) employed a labourer who was injured after a timber stud wall he was erecting fell on him. Following the incident, the worker was provided with inadequate first aid.

Worker loses hand in saw mill accident

Two of the Company’s workers were operating a planer when a piece of wood became jammed. The workers attempted to fix the problem while the machine was still in operation.

Hefty fine after plumber falls 7 metres

Transplumb was a construction company specialising in roofing works. On 19 December 2016, a crew of Transplumb workers attended a warehouse in Albion, Victoria, to repair roofing sheets.

Experienced operator contributed to colleague's death

Mr Poida was a crane operator employed by Tranzblast Coating Services. Mr Poida was an experienced crane operator, and the supervisor at a site in his workplace.

Defects in equipment cost company $50,000

In a second case involving Tranzblast’s 8-tonne crane, following the fatality discussed in the Robert Poida case, this crane was inspected and found to have multiple defects, including defective wheel and park brakes, non-operational

Apprentice injury costs company $24,000

Ballarat Construction Management Pty Ltd (the Company) was engaged as the project manager of a demolition, construction and renovation of a school in Ballarat, Victoria.

Lack of training results in $100K penalty

Leucaena Chop Pty Ltd (Company) provided tree harvesting services in the greater Rockhampton region. On 15 December 2015, the Company was engaged to harvest trees on a property with one of its modified cane fertiliser spreading machines.