Injury stories
Chayora celebrates topping-out ceremony for its Greater Shanghai Campus Data Centre, supported by dignitaries and high-profile speeches.
WorkSafe says the case underlines lead contractors’ duty to protect subcontractors after a roofer fell 4.5 metres in Sydenham.
WorkSafe says the case highlights how moving or copying machinery without fresh checks can expose workers to fatal crushing hazards.
A $100,000 fine and $43,000 reparation follow a roof-fall that left an Auckland worker with multiple fractures and a year-long recovery.
WorkSafe New Zealand has opted for a binding safety deal after a truck driver was killed in a landfill incident, avoiding prosecution.
A Napier roofing firm has been fined and ordered to pay reparations after a 14-year-old worker fell eight metres through a skylight.
At least two construction workers have died each month since last year, prompting urgent warnings over site safety and enforcement.
Children were left at risk of death or serious injury when an inflatable slide collapsed, prompting a GBP £350,000 fine in Waihi.
WorkSafe says worn towing gear and expired certification let a trailer decouple on a Northland road, killing a nine-year-old girl.
WorkSafe says directors remain liable after insolvency, as a painter’s death in Bucklands Beach exposed failures to use edge protection.
Improper testing left a school fence and a home roof space energised, prompting warnings that live polarity checks can trigger fires and electrocution.
Businesses must account for after-hours contractors, after a Taranaki cleaner died trapped in machinery and two firms were fined GBP £340,000.
A south Auckland egg processor has been fined for safety failings after a worker lost a thumb while cleaning a conveyor in 2020.
WorkSafe has accepted reparations and safety commitments instead of charges, after failures in temporary traffic management led to a cyclist's death.
Inspections and an independent inquiry will follow two port deaths in a week, as authorities warn of wider safety failures across the sector.
Workers using high-pressure water blasters are being urged to replace guns with bungs after one operator suffered severe facial injuries.
WorkSafe says poor briefing and missing protective gear left three service personnel with lifelong injuries after a faulty mock exercise in Palmerston North.
The operator’s failure to register and train staff properly has left it facing liquidation after being fined GBP £595,000 over two tourist deaths.
WorkSafe says a quarry worker suffered a fractured rib and leg stitches after a 2.1m fall from a ladder, and will miss 14 days.
A Dunedin office project will trial real-time BIM safety tools as construction firms seek to curb a sector that drives 16% of ACC work claims.
