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Another young worker shot with a nail-gun New Gisborne
WorkSafe is investigating another serious incident with a nail-gun after a 20-year-old worker was shot in the chest with one at New Gisborne, north of Melbourne, this morning. The 75mm long nail went into the 20-year-old s chest just above his heart.
Published Date: 09 Sep 2009
Man crushed between two trucks - follows fatality and explosion
A 50-year-old man is in hospital after a truck and trailer rolled backwards for 10 metres and crushed him against another truck at Mickleham today. The man was using a lever at the rear of a tip truck to release bitumen for a private driveway in Mountain View Lane when the incident happened just after noon.
Published Date: 03 Sep 2009
Sign Up Now For Work Safe Week 2009
WorkSafe Victoria s annual Work Safe Week is back with another huge program of seminars and events aimed at helping Victorian businesses get up-to-date with the latest information on Running from 26-30 October, Work Safe Week encourages people to Learn the latest and stay up to date by attending one or more of the 100 free and practical
Published Date: 03 Sep 2009
Nearly $14m to fix injured Wangaratta workers
Wangaratta begins next week a little safer after the recent Safe towns campaign which resulted in 127 visits to local businesses by WorkSafe. Safety inspectors issued 148 improvement notices during the week-long campaign which ended on 21 August.
Published Date: 28 Aug 2009
Oakleigh targeted by WorkSafe campaign
Small businesses in Oakleigh have a week to focus on health and safety ahead of a dynamic inspection campaign in the area from 7 11 September. Oakleigh is the next Melbourne suburb to take part in WorkSafe s Safer Work Zones campaign as part of a strategic effort to reduce workplaces injuries and deaths in small
Published Date: 28 Aug 2009
Like OHS, gravity is a law too
A fundamental safety flaw failing to install temporary bracing led to the collapse of the steel frame for a Laverton warehouse during strong winds in December 2006. Eighty tonnes of steel framing for the warehouse and associated offices collapsed leaving the site in Cyanamid St, Laverton.
Published Date: 21 Aug 2009
Another apprentice hurt this time in Gippsland
A second Victorian apprentice has been hurt in two days this time at a training college in the Latrobe Valley. WorkSafe is investigating the incident at Apprenticeships Group Australia formerly Gippsland Group Training involving a 19-year-old female first year apprentice late this morning.
Published Date: 21 Aug 2009
Wild weather hits workplaces across the state
Strong winds that have crossed Victoria today have resulted in a spate of calls to WorkSafe. There have been no reports of injuries, however two men on a building site escaped injury when a 5kg piece of metal narrowly missed them having fallen from the top of
Published Date: 21 Aug 2009
Double-barrelled warning after teen shot with nail gun
A young worker has undergone surgery for abdominal injuries after being shot by a nail gun at Balliang west of Melbourne this morning. He was taken by private car to Bacchus Marsh Hospital and then flown to the Alfred Hospital. The incident happened at a property in Bacchus Marsh Rd, Balliang around 10
Published Date: 19 Aug 2009
B&D Australia convicted and fined $300,000 after worker dies
Husband and father of two young children, Mervyn Jacobs was lifting a seven-metre-long tube when it fell and killed him at Kilsyth in Melbourne s outer east in November 2006. The 350kg steel tube was to form the core of a roller door.
Published Date: 14 Aug 2009
