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Workplace incident: worker seriously injured - falling block wall section
In January 2026, a worker sustained serious injuries when a block wall section fell over during its planned removal at a construction site.
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Workplace incident – serious injury involving machinery
Workers who operate, maintain, repair, install, service and clean machines in all industry sectors are highly vulnerable and have a higher risk of being seriously injured or a workplace fatality through inadvertent operation of equipment they are working in, on, or around.
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Workplace incident: worker and tractor attachment
In January 2026, a farm worker sustained serious leg injuries after becoming entrapped in the moving parts of a vegetable harvester that was attached to a tractor .
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Workplace fatality - crush injuries while loading a forklift for transport
In April 2026, a person sustained fatal crush injuries while loading a forklift onto a low loader trailer for transport after it had been used at a residential property.
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Workplace fatality: Overturned telehandler
This incident alert has been developed following a recent farm incident involving a telehandler operating adjacent to a farm surge dam, which resulted in a workplace fatality.
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Workplace fatality – crush injuries involving two vehicles
In April 2026, a worker sustained fatal crush injuries after becoming trapped between two vehicles
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Safe support of mobile plant on outriggers
This safety alert highlights the risk of mobile plant overturning when outrigger feet sink. This alert applies to any mobile plant that uses outriggers or stabilisers , including mobile cranes, elevating work platforms and mobile concrete placing booms.
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Fatal hay bale incident
In 2025, a truck driver died after being struck by falling hay bales. Early investigations indicated the hay bales were being unloaded by a skid steer loader when, for reasons yet to be established, several bales fell on the nearby worker.
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Tractor-mounted post driver failure
This safety alert discusses the risk of serious injury or death when tractor‑mounted post drivers and similar mast‑type attachments detach or pivot unintentionally. This alert also provides practical guidance to help farmers and rural workers identify hazards, understand why failures occur, and apply simple but critical controls to reduce the risk of similar incidents.
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Two workers exposed to hazardous chemical
In late 2025, two workers suffered chemical burns after exposure to a corrosive chemical during a transfer process at a manufacturing workplace.
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Worker fatally injured when trapped in an elevated scraper
In late 2025, a worker sustained fatal crush injuries when they became trapped between the floor cylinder rod end and the back wall of the scraper bowl of an elevated scraper.
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Worker sustains crush injuries from falling pipe
In mid 2025, a worker sustained two fractured legs after being struck by a large plastic pipe.