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Safety and health alerts by Industry (H-Z)

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• Health and community services
• Manufacturing
• Personal and other services
• Property and business services
• Transport and storage
• Wholesale and retail

• 01-07 Portable overhead hoist
  Topic: Manual handling
  


• 17-94 Serious injury-work related stress
  Topic: Stress
  


• 05-01 Patient trolley injuries
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 02-97 Caring for the aged
  Topic: Manual handling
  

• 17-05 Isolation of plant and machinery
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 03-00 Young worker injured by cardboard baling machine
  Topic: New and young workers
  


• 43-99 Chain slips from chain shortener
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 44-99 MIG Welding wire injures eye
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 56-99 Trained fork lift operator injured
  Topic: Forklifts
  


• 57-99 Falls from heights-boatbuilding
  Topic: Working at height
  


• 16-99 Skylarking burns down factory
  Topic: New and young workers
  


• 03-02 Man fatally injured in concrete agitator
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 05-02 Delivery driver fatally injured
  Topic: General
  


• 06-02 Abattoir worker falls into scald tank
  Topic: General
  


• 08-02 Chain sling failure
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 10-02 Explosion danger in cutting drums
  Topic: Hazardous substances
  


• 11-02 Apprentice loses hand in meat mincer
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 05-94 Accident involving transfer car and kiln
  Topic: Guarding
  


• 06-94 Accident involving a beef hide puller
  Topic: Guarding
  


• 08-94 Misuse of an over centre load-binding in an engineerin
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 09-94 Serious injury-amputation of left arm
  Topic: Guarding
  


• 10-94 Explosion during boat repairs
  Topic: Hazardous substances
  


• 12-94 Serious injury amputation of arm
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 13-94 Fatal accident-glass handling
  Topic: General
  


• 16-94 (Revised) Accident involving a hunter scissor lift
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 01-95 Lifting aluminium sheets
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 03-95 The hazardous maintenance of machinery
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 04-95 Air trac drilling rig
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 05-95 Fatal accident-skid steer loader
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 38-00 Person killed in mixing machine
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 21-01 Boilermaker loses eye in cutting disc accident
  Topic: General
  


• 24-01 Welder burnt
  Topic: General
  


• 07-03 Employee cut by machine blade
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 13-03 Employee slips into caustic degreasing tank
  Topic: Hazardous substances
  


• 06-00 Electrical short results in death
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 11-00 Severe conveyor incident
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 22-00 Young worker injured by power press
  Topic: New and young workers
  


• 26-00 Forklift driver dies in forklift accident
  Topic: Forklifts
  


• 32-00 Incident on a DSV during heliox gas transfer
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 02-01 Skid steer loader operator crushed by machine
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 05-03 Mobile crane outrigger base plate failure
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 01-04 Employee amutates finger with beam saw
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 15-04 Explosions aluminium boat repairs
  Topic: Hazardous substances
  


• 16-95 Explosion during boat repairs
  Topic: Hazardous substances
  


• 20-95 Electrical shock from junctio box
  Topic: Electricity
  


• 21-95 Elevating work platform collapse
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 22-95 Overhead travelling crane failure
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 25-95 Hydrochloric acid bath chemical reaction
  Topic: Hazardous substances
  


• 03-96 Employee burnt in solvent fire
  Topic: Hazardous substances
  


• 14-97 Worker crushed by moving part
  Topic: General
  


• 03-98 Use of roundslings-synthetic fibre
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 10-98 Pressurisation of fuel storage tanks
  Topic: Hazardous substances
  


• 16-98 Work in confined spaces
  Topic: Confined spaces
  


• 01-99 Spontaneous combustion
  Topic: Hazardous substances
  


• 05-96 Skid steer loader injuries
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 10-96 Fitter injured by earthmover tyre
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 14-96 Employee caught in fruit grading machinery
  Topic: Guarding
  


• 16-96 Welders killed by falling beams
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 19-96 Falls from forklifts
  Topic: Forklifts
  


• 20-96 Young worker using an angle grinder
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 23-96 Spindle moulder accident
  Topic: Guarding
  


• 04-97 Hydrofluoric acid burns from metal cleaner
  Topic: Hazardous substances
  


• 16-03 Worker injured in hay press
  Topic: Guarding
  


• 17-04 Wood chipper disk failures
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 07-97 Working under a raised load
  Topic: Forklifts
  


• 01-98 Power press guarding
  Topic: Guarding
  


• 17-97 Removal of vehicle fuel tanks
  Topic: Hazardous substances
  


• 06-98 Working in confined spaces
  Topic: Confined spaces
  


• 07-98 Q fever in abattoir
  Topic: Disease health
  


• 13 07 Concealed manufacturing defects in pipe fittings_and_f
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 04-05 Fatal engagement of drill rig operator in drill string
  Topic: Guarding
  


• 06-05 Oxidiser sparks chemical fire
  Topic: Hazardous substances
  


• 15-00 Truck driver falls five metres accessing transfer auge
  Topic: Manual handling
  


• 21-99 Unsafe system for mixing chemicals
  Topic: Hazardous substances
  


• 38-99 Unsafe systems in aluminium boat construction
  Topic: Hazardous substances
  


• 40-99 Steel block ejected from power press
  Topic: Guarding
  


• 54-99 Occupational asthma associated with exposure to isocya
  Topic: Hazardous substances
  


• 09-97 Glazier burnt cutting laminated glass
  Topic: Hazardous substances
  


• 08-08 Apprentice cabinet maker killed
  Topic: Manual handling
  


• 29-00 Modified forklift alarms WorkSafe Western Australia
  Topic: Forklifts
  


• 03-09 Student work experience
  Topic: Guarding
  


• 11-08 Apprentice cabinet maker killed
  Topic: Manual handling
  


• 07-09 Fall from grid mesh
  Topic: Working at height
  


• 06-09 Elevated work platf
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 16-09 Workplace concrete collapses
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 17-09 Employee injured while inflating tyre
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  

• 13-05 Operator loses control of ride-on mower
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 58-99 Tow truck accident endangers lives
  Topic: General
  


• 61-99 Employee dies in wood chipper accident
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 18-95 Acid burns from aluminium cleaner
  Topic: Hazardous substances
  


• 19-95 Person crushed jump starting loader
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 26-95 Exploding line marker fractures skull
  Topic: General
  


• 28-95 Electric shocks in cleaning industry
  Topic: Electricity
  


• 07-96 Truck roll over mechanic
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 08-96 Handyman electrocuted trimming_tree
  Topic: Electricity
  


• 07-05 Gardener fatally injured in roll-over
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 27-00 Bulk Rubbish collection truck moves off when driver va
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 55-99 Hair dryer gives hairdresser electric shock
  Topic: Electricity
  


• 15-96 Young trolley collector killed
  Topic: New and young workers
  


• 01-08 Stamping of gas cylinders (fire extinguishers)
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 12-07 Tree lopper killed by contacting overhead high voltage
  Topic: Electricity
  

• 10-09 working hours security industry
  Topic: Fatigue
  


• 04-09 Rubbish trucks
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  

• 05-07 Driver fatigue contributes to fatality
  Topic: Fatigue
  


• 04-00 Shunter injured whilst aligning buffers during shuntin
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 03-07 Rail worker fatally injured
  Topic: General
  


• 08-95 Driver killed by runaway diesel truck
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 23-01 Inadequate communication with isolated employees
  Topic: General
  


• 09-03 Commercial vehicle driver succumbs to driver fatigue
  Topic: Fatigue
  


• 11-03 Employer injured while slinging loads
  Topic: General
  


• 08-00 Deckhand crushed against jetty by river ferry
  Topic: General
  


• 24-00 Equipment fitted to work vehicles
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 05-04 Transport company operator fatally injured by falling
  Topic: Working alone
  


• 14-04 Truck driver killed winching a sea container onto truck
  Topic: General
  


• 15-95 Driver burnt in LPG explosion
  Topic: Hazardous substances
  


• 31-95 Fork-lift driver crushed
  Topic: Forklifts
  


• 12-97 Dangers of carrying equipment under the tray of truck
  Topic: General
  


• 12-01 Unsafe use of tractors modified for use as forklifts
  Topic: Forklifts
  


• 14-01 Employee falls from pallet
  Topic: Working at height
  


• 21-96 Operator crushed by truck tipper body
  Topic: General
  


• 24-96 Burns from car refuelling with LPG
  Topic: Hazardous substances
  


• 25-96 Use of a forklift with an attachment
  Topic: Forklifts
  


• 13-04 Truck driver injured by falling earthmoving tyres
  Topic: Forklifts
  


• 02-06 Lifting containers with cranes
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 01-06 Container side lifter overturns
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 02-98 Truck safety
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 01-05 Failure of domestic step ladder
  Topic: Working at height
  


• 09-05 Lack of maintenance on road train leads to joint actio
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 34-00 Waste bin truck fatality
  Topic: General
  


• 39-99 Pressurised canister explodes injuring apprentices han
  Topic: General
  


• 02-07 Safe movement of vehicles
  Topic: General
  


• 18-99 Static electicity suspected of igniting petrol
  Topic: Hazardous substances
  


• 02-08 Commercial vehicle roll-over#2
  Topic: Fatigue
  


• 12-06 Truck driver fatally injured
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 01-09 Driver fatigue
  Topic: Fatigue
  


• 14-09 Driver overcome by fumes
  Topic: Fatigue
  

• 19-02 Young worker injured by exploding tyre and rim
  Topic: New and young workers
  


• 25-00 Manual handling stock from storage shelving
  Topic: Manual handling
  


• 04-03 Child killed by unstable shop display
  Topic: Working at height
  


• 04-04 Butcher injured while lifting tubs of meat trimmings
  Topic: Manual handling
  


• 11-97 (Revised) Vehicle hoist failure
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 10-97 Automatic security gates
  Topic: General
  


• 13-97 Split ring wheel fatality
  Topic: General
  


• 05-98 Forklift driver dies in forklift accident
  Topic: Forklifts
  


• 09-99 Operating pressurised plant
  Topic: Plant and machinery
  


• 15-99 Carbon monoxide poisoning from LPG forklift exhaust fu
  Topic: Confined spaces
  


• 08-98 New worker knocked unconscious
  Topic: New and young workers
  


• 14-07 Toxic vapours lead to shopping centre evacuation
  Topic: Hazardous substances