Injury stories
WorkSafe says directors face prosecution after a metal press left a worker with amputated fingers and exposed safety failings.
Workplace deaths on New Zealand farms have already hit five this year, with vehicles and fatigue among the biggest risks ahead of spring.
Two forestry firms have been fined more than GBP £600,000 after a worker was struck and killed in a preventable logging accident on the East Coast.
WorkSafe says the death could have been avoided after the trainee was left unsupervised while learning to use the crane in Christchurch.
A South Auckland mattress maker has been fined NZD $250,000 after a nail ricocheted into a worker's heart, exposing lax safety controls.
Workers using vibrating tools could suffer permanent nerve and joint damage if employers fail to control exposure early enough.
Outdated crane procedures left a Hawke’s Bay steel cutter facing GBP £370,000 in fines, reparations and costs after a worker lost a leg.
A flooring firm has been fined USD $60,000 after a worker died using solvent-based adhesive without proper risk checks or ventilation.
Workplace cuts and crush injuries can be reduced by simple precautions, saving firms costly downtime and staff from painful hand damage.
A company’s ignored maintenance warnings ended in a fatal three-metre fall and a GBP £279,000 fine for unsafe trailer edge protection.
A court has ordered VINZ to pay more than GBP £500,000 after a customer was struck by a vehicle at its Hamilton testing site and later died.
Seatbelt non-use is behind about 10 work fatalities a year in New Zealand, with farm vehicle deaths accounting for a large share.
WorkSafe said repeated tip alarm warnings went unheeded before a straddle carrier overturned, killing a stevedore in 2018.
A Dunedin court has fined a plumbing firm and its director after a bathroom heater installation caused a 12-year-old boy’s carbon monoxide death.
A worker’s lack of scaffold experience left him with life-changing injuries after being asked to rebuild the platform, a court heard.
A farm's unsafe side-by-side left a WOOFer dead after she was thrown from the vehicle in a 13-metre fall, WorkSafe says.
Six people were left with serious burns after a Christchurch home was destroyed by an explosion caused by a gasfitter’s safety lapse.
More than one million US hand injuries a year are driving calls for better training, cut-resistant gloves and safer tools.
The Auckland firm was fined USD $220,000 after a worker’s leg was amputated when unguarded machinery trapped him in a steel beam drill.
Lax hazard checks before manual tree felling led to a worker’s death, with Sullivan Contractors fined and ordered to pay GBP £365,225 in reparations.
