OHS Incidents

26/02/2010
WA fines over fall protection

The fining of two WA construction companies for failing to provide edge protection has prompted a strong - but welcome - response from WorkSafe WA.

Head contractor Morago Nominees Pty Ltd – trading as Gavin Constructions – was fined $4000, and subcontractor Airdas Pty Ltd – trading as Tyrone Bricklaying – was fined $2000 in Armadale Magistrates Court in February.

18/02/2010
Tipper truck fatality NSW

On 19 January 2010, a 53 year old male truck driver sustained fatal injuries when an articulated vehicle (semi trailer) he was driving rolled on him, while he was tipping soil on a reclamation site at Menangle Park Paceway.  Contractor. Read the full report.


08/02/2010
Concrete shower

Two ACT workers were recently showered with concrete after entering an unsafe zone where concrete was being discharged. The area was not identified with bunting nor were other workers tasked to protect the discharge zone, ACT WorkCover notes in the attached alert.

18/01/2010
John Holland fined for Dalyrymple death

Major contractor John Holland Pty Ltd has been fined $180,000 over safety failures that resulted in the death of Mark McCallum at Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal in May 2009.

The 34-year-old crane operator and rigger was working on a coal loading jetty when he was crushed by a moving jinker.

The court found the work method put Mark McCallum out of the range of vision of operator of the front-end loader and there was no radio protocol to confirm receipt of instructions.

14/01/2010
Crane collapse Worsley

Mechanical failure in the jib during commissioning caused the boom structure of a tower crane to come crashing down on BHP’s Worsley Alumina Refinery project near Collie, WA, on Wednesday afternoon January 13.

The boom damaged a number of amenities sheds and another crane, and narrowly missed some workers, but fortunately no-one was injured.

11/01/2010
Crane fall takes out power

Lampson (Australia) Pty Ltd is a crane company specialising in large crawler cranes. Their yard is based in a busy industrial estate in Bassendean. Perth. Around 3:00pm on Monday 11th January 2010, the CFMEU WA Branch was notified of an incident where a crane had fallen over and took out powerlines. 

01/12/2009
WA slab collapse

A suspended deck collapsed on a Perkins Builders Pty Ltd school development in the Perth suburb of Claremont on Saturday November 28. Download the attached CFMEU report on the incident, including OH&S pre-pour and formwork checklists for concrete pours.

Download  site OH&S Checklists for Concrete Pours only.

 

 

 

12/11/2009
Beware enclosed stairs

Just one month after the serious injury of a worker in Perth from a scaffold stair collapse, there was another incident with scaffold stairs on the Hansen Yuncken Pty Ltd site at Lyell McEwin Hospital in north Adelaide on September 25.

11/11/2009
Quick thinking crane crew averts catastrophe

Untold numbers of workers and passers-by might have been seriously injured in central Sydney on Monday November 9, were it not for the quick thinking of a crane operator and his dogger.

20/10/2009
Asbestos hazard ACT

CFMEU ACT safety officers uncovered dangerous removal of asbestos from Pickles Auction House in Fyshwick on Friday October 9. WorkCover ACT has placed a prohibition notice the worksite due to the danger that it poses to the public.

It has also been revealed that the ACT Planning and Land Authority has ordered that the site be closed, as the company removing the asbestos did not seek approval for any redevelopment of the site.

Australasian Technical Services (ATS), the company involved in the exposure incident, subsequently had their asbestos removal license suspended.