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Workplace health and safety alert
Sign collapse
This safety alert highlights the risk of collapse of self-supporting signs, and to raise awareness of the need to properly design, maintain and inspect sign structures.
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Workplace health and safety alert
SpaceAge winch type sign failures
The purpose of this safety alert is to highlight the risk of winch type (wind-up) sign failure and to provide recommendations on how to avoid further incidents. This alert specifically applies to winch type signs supplied by SpaceAge Signs and supersedes all previous alerts on winch type signs.
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Incident alert
Crane contacts overhead powerlines
Queensland’s Electrical Safety Office (ESO) and Workplace Health and Safety Queensland are investigating an incident where a mobile crane contacted overhead powerlines. One worker was electrocuted, another suffered serious injuries, while a third required hospital treatment. Investigations are continuing.
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Incident alert
Worker severely injured by agricultural machine
In June 2019, a worker suffered traumatic injuries to both arms as a result of becoming entrapped by a pulling winch. The pulling winch was used on a vegetable growing farm to pull liners with compost from a shelf and unload onto a conveyor.
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Incident alert
Worker burned by hot cane mud and liquid
In July 2019, an evaporative plant operator suffered extensive burns to his upper body after being doused by hot sugar cane mud and liquid released when he was unblocking a tank flange. WHSQ investigations are continuing.
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Incident alert
Worker injured by collapsed roof
In July 2019, a 22 year old man was seriously injured while doing demolition work. At the time, workers were manually demolishing the roof frame and external walls of a single storey home. The truss top plate (also called an upper wall plate) was cut. The top plate is a horizontal load-bearing member secured to the top of the wall studs that supports the roof structure. The roof and external wall frames skewed and fell, trapping the injured worker underneath. Investigations are continuing.
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Workplace health and safety alert
Suspended scaffold failure
Stability requirements for telescopic handlers used as cranes
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Workplace health and safety alert
High ropes adventure courses
The purpose of this alert is to highlight the risk of strangulation when participating in high ropes adventure courses.
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Incident alert
Worker seriously burned in vehicle gas tank fire
In April 2019, a worker was seriously burned while attempting to decommission a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tank from a motor vehicle at a workplace. It appears he was removing screws on the LPG tank using a battery-operated screwdriver which created an ignition source and started a fire.
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Incident alert
Farmer fatally injured by fallen hay bale
In July 2019, a farm worker was fatally injured when a bale of hay weighing approximately 720kg fell onto him. Early indications are he was unloading bales of hay using a front-end loader with fork attachments. It appears he exited the loader and approached the trailer to remove a strap. A hay bale that had become unstable fell from the trailer, fatally crushing him. Investigations are continuing.
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Incident alert
Student burned in science experiment
In March 2019, a student sustained serious burns and a staff member minor burns during a school science experiment when methylated spirits was applied to an open flame. A second student’s uniform caught fire, but it was extinguished without causing injury. It appears the experiment being undertaken was a soda snake experiment, in which carbon dioxide produced by hot baking soda pushes carbonate out from burning sugar.
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Incident alert
Young worker injured by exploding tyre rim
In May 2019, a young worker suffered serious facial injuries when the split rim that he and another worker were performing maintenance on, exploded. For reasons yet to be established, it appears the tyre exploded while the workers were removing a tyre from a split rim on an earthmover. Investigations are continuing.