Case Law - Health & Safety Handbook (Page 8)

Case Law

Inadequate guarding on machinery results in contractor injury

Bullock MFG Pty Limited (Bullock) is a sheet metal product manufacturer for the air-conditioning industry. The company engaged labour-hire employees for various roles, such as operating metal equipment and machinery.

Worker crushed by a 500kg mill trolley

Yarra Valley Snack Foods Pty Ltd (Yarra Valley) produces a range of packaged foods sold in supermarkets across Australia. In the factory is a 500kg mill trolley that is required to be cleaned.

Subcontractor is killed after fall from height

Seascape Constructions Pty Ltd (Seascape) is a construction company specialising in residential developments and was the principal contractor of a 2-storey residential dwelling.

Car collides with a mobile elevated work platform

United Access Pty Ltd supplies elevated work platforms for hire. The mobile elevated work platforms are regularly loaded and unloaded on and off vehicles around the worksite for transportation to clients.

Worker’s arm becomes entrapped in a meat processing plant

A worker was seriously injured while working in an offal room at a meat processing plant operated by Diamond Valley Pork Pty Ltd (company).

Young, inexperienced workers exposed to a dangerous work environment

First industrial manslaughter conviction in Queensland

Brisbane Auto Recycling Pty Ltd (company) operated an auto wrecking business at 167 Marshall Road Rocklea (workplace). The business involved the purchase of used motor vehicles for resale, recycling and parts.

Two workers suffer serious burns after an incident with hazardous chemicals

Hydromet Corporation Pty Limited (Hydromet) specialised in recycling used batteries, processing chemical and industrial waste, and storing and handling large quantities of hazardous chemicals.

Company fined a total of $300,000 for work health and safety failures

New Sector Engineering Pty Ltd (NSE) is involved in repairing and maintaining steel machines for the food and industrial sector.

Carpenter suffers fatal injuries after a brick wall collapses

NSW Bricklaying Pty Ltd supplied bricklayers to construction sites. At the site of the incident, employees of NSW Bricklaying constructed an approximately 6-metre-high brick wall as part of a residential duplex development.

Failure to formalise safety procedures contributes to worker injury

Dongwha Timbers Pty Limited is a business in the lumber industry, which operates a timber sawmill and timber re-manufacturing facility in Bombala, NSW.

Company fined $25,000 after trailer collides with a forklift

Clifford Hallam Healthcare Pty Limited (Clifford Hallam) is a company involved in healthcare services and products. It had a warehouse facility in Dandenong, which moved to a new site in Keysborough 2 months before the incident.

Worker suffers fatal injuries after structure tips

SJ & TA Structural Pty Ltd (SJ & TA) is a manufacturing and construction company involved in steel fabrication at its site in Wodonga. On 18 August 2016, Mr Adrian Heber was moving steel stair frames, together with other employees of SJ & TA, from the factory building to the yard for storage.

Elderly man falls into a trench excavated by a plumbing company

Proflow Plumbing and Maintenance Pty Limited (company) specialised in providing plumbing and maintenance services. The company was engaged to repair a blockage in the sewage pipes at a residential premises in Glenmore Park, which was the home of Mr Leslie James Sloan.

Employer found to have adopted a system of work that exposed a worker to significant risk

Mandalay Resources Costerfield Operations Pty Ltd (company) was the owner and operator of the Augusta gold-antimony mine in Costerfield.