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Company Fined $80,000 After Excavation Collapses on Apprentice

A construction company has been convicted and fined $80,000 after an excavation collapsed leaving a 17-year-old apprentice plumber with life-threatening injuries.   Olive Construction Pty Ltd pleaded guilty in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court to one charge contrary to section 26 of the OHS Act for failing to provide a workplace that was safe and without …

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Man Pinned Between Forklift and a Scissor Lift

Date November 12, 2013

A man in his 20s has been airlifted to hospital by the RAC rescue chopper after a workplace accident in the British Aerospace dry-dock in Henderson on Tuesday morning.

 

Worksafe WA confirmed they were investigating an accident that occurred just before 8am on Tuesday morning where a man had been pinned between a forklift and a scissor-lift.