OHS Incidents

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

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24/08/2011
Worker killed in piling rig accident

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
Worker injured after soft 'sausage' sling rips

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
Tower crane 30 metre limit now effective

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
Cantilevered Chariot Causes Fatal Fall

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
Canberra Dam Accident - John Holland Again

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
Two workers electrocuted, one fatally, on John Holland power project in Queensland

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
Heavy Plant and Machinery Tipping Over on Unsafe Ground

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