An earthmoving company will pay for its alleged poor handling of a workplace accident. Hamiltons Blasting Services (HBS) was recently fined $300,000 for breaching section 31 of the Work Health and...
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A multinational resources company will pay for an external employee’s severe workplace injury. BHP was fined years after a metal shard struck a maintenance worker at the Mount Whaleback Mine...
An exploration and water boring company will pay after a team member died from a serious injury more than two years ago. Orbit Drilling recently pleaded guilty to failing to provide and maintain a...
An anti-coal protestor was penalised for suspending himself from bulk-handling equipment in North Queensland. Bowen Magistrates Court released Paul Jukes on an 18-month, $1000 good behaviour bond...
The director of a shed building company has become the first person to be sentenced to a term of imprisonment under WA’s workplace safety and health laws. Director of MT Sheds (WA) Pty Ltd –...
Coronado Global Resources’ Curragh mine in the Emerald Magistrates Court, Queensland has been charged over the death of Thiess employee Donald Rabbitt on January 12 2020. Mr Rabbitt, 33 years...
L’Haridon Bight Mining Pty Ltd was fined $20,000 in the Perth Magistrates Court on 9 March 2021, after a worker was injured at the company’s Shell Beach Mine located 45km out of Denham in May 2017...
Australia’s second largest gold producer Northern Star Resources Ltd was fined a total of $150,000 in the Kalgoorlie Magistrates Court on 8 March 2021, after two workers were injured in a vehicle...
Alcoa of Australia Ltd was fined $210,000 in the Perth Magistrates Court on 28th Jan 2020 and ordered to pay $75,000 in costs after a contractor fell to his death at the company’s Kwinana Alumina...
Two companies have been fined $750,000 following a worker crushed to death by an industrial pile driver at a Port Augusta solar farm in 2018. Lightforce Asset Pty Ltd and Civil and Allied Technical...
