Tag: workplace accident
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INVESTIGATIONS UNDERWAY INTO SCAFFOLDING FALL
SafeWork is investigating, after a tradesman fell 7 metres from a roof at Killcare Heights yesterday afternoon. Emergency services, including the Careflight Chopper, were called to the suburb, after the 26-year-old plummeted through scaffolding at a home. He was taken to Royal North Shore Hospital with spinal and ankle injuries. (VISION ONLY.)
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SAFEWORK INVESTIGATES MAN BEING PINNED BY TRUCK
Safework is investigating after a man was pinned between two vehicles at Wadalba yesterday. The 40-year-old was “spotting” a learner truck driver, when he became trapped between the truck and a parked four wheeled drive. He was airlifted to Sydney’s Royal North Shore Hospital with a leg injury, while the driver was treated for shock.…
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CENTRAL COAST COMPANY FINED OVER EMPLOYEE’S CHEMICAL BURNS
A West Gosford chemical producer has been fined nearly $50,000 after an employee suffered second-degree burns mixing an adhesive in 2016. Hiltour has been handed the penalty, after a 28-year-old man had to undergo numerous skin graft surgeries to his leg. It’s been revealed the employee of 10 years never received adequate training to deal…