OHS Incidents

26/10/2011
  • CFMEU and suppliers meet after accidents
  • New certificate of compliance and checklist now required

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24/08/2011

CFMEU Vic Health & Safety Officer Gerry Ayers writes:

We regret to have to inform members that on the afternoon of Saturday May 28, a 30 year old builders labourer died as a result of on accident on a Docklands building site.

The employee of...

09/02/2011

A rigger was injured when a brand new soft ‘sausage’ sling ripped while lifting a 4 tonne valve into place during a shutdown at Boral Cement, Waurn Ponds on February 4.

11/10/2010

Builders and crane suppliers have been on notice for some time that crane operators will not be required to climb more than 30 metres to their cab.

10/02/2010

A worker fell seven storeys into the street and died when the cantilevered chariot he was working on tipped over on a Hickory site in...

10/02/2010

A worker was severely injured when this drilling rig fell 18 metres on the Googong Dam site near Canberra on January 8.

Karl Harland, a Victorian CFMEU member,...

09/02/2010

A man has died after he and a colleague received electric shocks from high-voltage power lines and were unable to be rescued for more than two and a half hours from a piece of machinery resembling a cherry picker.

16/12/2009

Recent accidents highlight the dangers of setting up heavy machinery on unstable ground.