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.
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A rigger suffered a broken shoulder, two broken ribs, a punctured lung and needed 40 stitches when the scissor lift he was working from tipped over.
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...
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,...
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.
Recent accidents highlight the dangers of setting up heavy machinery on unstable ground.
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.
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