14.07.2006
A bus driver died while changing a tyre alone in preparation for the 5am service to Adelaide, and was found trapped beneath the bus by passengers.
13.08.2006
A self-
30.09.2006
A self-
04.10.2006
A self-
30.11.2006
A stock control manager died after falling 8 metres while counting hay bales on top of a stack.
07.12.2006 Brian Murphy
A truck driver was fatally injured while standing on the opposite side of a truck when the steel tubing being unloaded by forklift fell and hit him.
03/07/2005
Tractor flips over killing driver near Two Wells
06/07/2005
Semi-
07/07/2005 Karl Eibl WMC (BHP) Prosecuted
An explosion at Olympic Dam kills worker
29/07/2005 Alison Phillips
A woman is killed on a quad bike
09/08/2005
A man is killed operating a steel loader
24/08/2005
A scientist dies when he is taken by a shark whilst diving
15/09/2005
A bus driver is killed when he is pinned under a vehicle at Elizabeth
01/11/2005
A man dies when a spray unit falls on man in a farming accident
01/11/2005 Giacomo Salvemini
A fisherman is killed when he is pulled into a shark reel on a fishing boat in the Great Australian Bight
12/12/2005
A man died when he became trapped in a Barley Silo at Long Plains
14/12/2005 Stuart Munzberg
A man is killed when he is pulled into a travelator at a shopping centre construction site
21/04/2006
A man is trapped and subsequently killed in a dumb waiter in the city while performing maintenance duties
24/04/2006 Charles Hiscock
A 3m high trench collapses on a worker at Munno Parra
24/04/2006
A man is killed as the scraper he is operating rolls over
09/05/2006 Damian Harris Mathew Keeley Darren Millington
Three men are killed in an horrific factory explosion at Gladstone
13/06/2006 Dean Robinson
A man is trapped and dies when a load of steel falls at a Port Adelaide shipping dock
16/04/2003
A worker died on the way to hospital as a result of multiple stab wounds received during an attack.
11/04/2003 Craig McAlister -
A forklift operator died while operating a forklift in a cold room.
02/04/2003
A man died when the split rim he was attempting to remove from a front end loader exploded.
12/03/2003
An electricity meter reader lost control of his vehicle on a dirt road while travelling between jobs.
10/12/2002
A track worker was thrown from a horse and dragged behind the horse when his foot failed to release from the stirrup.
14/10/2002
A public servant was fatally shot after emerging from the lift of a city office block.
16/09/2002
A driver was killed when the prime mover he was driving was involved in a road traffic accident.
16/09/2002
A truck driver veered into the path of oncoming traffic colliding head on with another truck.
13/09/2002
A worker died three days after surgery required for a back injury.
15/08/2002
A driver was killed when his road tanker collided with another vehicle.
08/08/2002
A worker was crushed between an overhead gantry crane and an adjacent beam.
30/07/2002
While spraying weeds a farmer was thrown from his four-
02/07/2002
An electrical worker was electrocuted while working on an electrical circuit and bank of lights.
27/06/2002
A farmer died when loose clothing he was wearing became entangled in the power take
off used to drive a post-
26/05/2002
A person died when their motor cycle collided with a motor vehicle. The person was working at the time.
03/03/2002
A farmer was killed when the tractor he was using to tow a fully laden trailer up a steep incline, overturned.
30/04/2002
A scallop diver was fatally attacked by a shark.
10/04/2002 Lee Alexander -
A worker was killed on a construction site when heavy building material struck him.
10/04/2002
A person driving a tractor to clear bushes on a hillside property was killed when the tractor rolled over.
02/04/2002
A person working on a vehicle on an elevated vehicle hoist was killed when the vehicle slipped off the hoist.
06/02/2002
The driver of a water tank vehicle was killed when the vehicle overturned, catching on fire.
07/01/2002
A tank driver was killed when his tanker rolled over and exploded.
10/12/2001
A pilot was killed when his aircraft crashed on approach to Mt Gambier.
21/11/2001
An electrical contractor was electrocuted in the roof space of commercial premises when he came into contact with a live split metal conduit.
07/11/2001
A self-
15/10/2001
A site supervisor was providing nursery instruction to another employee when he received
a single fatal bee-
05/10/2001
A self-
29/09/2001
A retired handyman received fatal injuries, when he fell 5-
11/08/2001 Findings
A person was killed while positioning a light pole on a concrete base using a crane. The light pole came into contact with overhead power lines.
09/07/2001
A person was carrying out repairs to a four and a half tonne rigid truck, while the vehicle was running. During the operation, the truck clutch engaged and the vehicle travelled backwards approximately two and a half metres.
01/12/1997 -
Roof collapse of oven / kiln in which 1 man was killed and co-
18-
A truck driver sustained fatal crush injuries when she became trapped between the truck’s tray and the arm of the crane while loading timber using a slewing truck mounted crane.
12-
A cleaner sustained fatal injuries when attempting to hold down a section of rope bunting placed across a car park entrance. The cleaner was dragged for a distance by the rope, which caught on the tailgate of a vehicle’s trailer.
18-
A person carrying out repairs to a dam drowned when the boat overturned.
19-
An employee sustained fatal injuries from a 5.7 metres fall through fibreglass sheeting while working on the roof of a shearing shed.
22-
A worker sustained fatal crush injuries while attempting to load a trailer onto a truck using a vehicle loading crane.
09-
A tour operator drowned when he was washed from rocks while trying to throw a floatation device to another tourist (who had fallen into the sea).
13-
A volunteer sustained fatal injuries after falling 2.7 metres from a freestanding veranda.
21-
A deckhand drowned after falling overboard from a prawn trawler.
19-
A man sustained fatal injuries when he fell from the roof of a single storey house.
07-
A self employed farmer sustained fatal injuries when the tractor tyre he was inflating exploded.
25-
A worker sustained fatal crush injuries when the stacker of the crushing plant he was working on collapsed.
01-
Two workers (driver and passenger) sustained fatal injuries when their 41 tonne Ore truck veered across a quarry access road and off an embankment, rolling approximately 35 metres before coming to rest on the embankment wall.
06-
A child suffered fatal injuries when the trailer he was riding on overturned.
14-
A self employed contractor suffered fatal injuries after falling from a roof.
16-
A worker sustained fatal injuries when the cutting disc of the angle grinder he was using disintegrated.
01-
A worker sustained fatal injuries when he was hit by a prime mover while inspecting underground fuel tank inspection/filling points.
04-
A truck driver sustained fatal injuries when the truck he was driving veered off the road.
24-
A man suffered fatal injuries when he was trapped in the rubbish holding compartment of a waste truck.
05-
A 1st year apprentice toolmaker sustained fatal injuries when he became entangled around the spindle of the horizontal boring machine he was operating.
01/08/2004
A taxi driver was killed when the taxi he was driving hit a tree.
11/08/2004
An employee was crushed while working underneath a three axle rigid truck when one of two jacks supporting the truck shifted.
09/09/2004 Karl Heinz Petry -
An employee was injured when the utility type high rail vehicle he was driving along the Port Augusta to Leigh Creek coal railway line derailed and overturned approximately 190km from Port Augusta. The employee was treated at Port Augusta hospital then air lifted to the Royal Adelaide Hospital where he died two days later.
20/09/2004
A self employed person died while operating an excavator on an open cut wall of an opal mine when a section of the wall collapsed.
26/09/2004
A person entered a building site and allegedly climbed a mobile scaffold. A welder working on the scaffold heard a noise and saw the person on the ground. The person was taken to hospital with head injuries. Life support was terminated four days later.
02/10/2004
A driver drowned when his septic waste truck left the road and drove into the river.
18/10/2004 Gregory Sleep -
An employee who had been checking stock piles of lead concentrate being off-
28/12/2004
An ex-
11/01/2005
Two Country Fire Service volunteers died as a result of being overcome by an out of control bush fire on the Eyre Peninsula.
31/01/2005 Alan Groeneveld -
An employee suffered a fatal electric shock when he came into contact with live wires while changing fluorescent light tubes in an illuminated sign.
25/02/2005
A manager’s seven year old son died when a new unsecured drill press overbalanced and fell on him.
05/03/2005
A farmer was crushed against a fence by a tractor. The farmer had been using the tractor to move hay and had disembarked to cut bindings.
24/04/2005
A working director, who had left the premises to check livestock before returning home, was killed when a vehicle struck his car.
19/05/2005
A music teacher was killed when their car left the road and hit a tree while delivering musical instruments for a school concert band performance.
Jul 1999
A self employed miner was looking for opals at Coober Pedy where he apparently placed the end of a steel file into the end of a live three phase electrical outlet.
Aug 1999
The death of a 4-
Sep 1999
The deceased was unloading a car from a tilt tray car transporter and during this process it appears he leaned under the tilt tray to free a chain and inadvertently leant on the hydraulic control levers and the tray dropped inflicting fatal crush injuries.
Oct 1999
The deceased was an employee of Transfield Pty Ltd. He was a boilermaker and was working at BHP Steelworks – Whyalla undertaking repairs to a set of points on the internal railway link close to the pellet plant. He was struck by a rail wagon, which was returning from the blast furnace.
Nov 1999
The deceased was run over by a tractor he was operating and sustained fatal crushing injuries to the head. He was working on a property, which is about 12kms north of Jamestown.
Nov 1999
The deceased was crushed under a slasher whilst undertaking field maintenance at Penola.
22 Nov 1999 Max Logan -
The deceased was cleaning loose bark from a "jack ladder" (an inclined bed on which
logs are carried to the de-
21 Dec 1999 Craig Anothony Bacon -
The deceased was in the process of gaining access to two slabs of granite, which needed to be cut to size for storing on a shipping frame. The shipping frame had seven granite slabs standing on their side a total weight of 1.7 tonnes. The deceased was holding the slabs on the shipping frame when the granite slabs moved and fell on him causing a fatal crush.
March 2000
An employee was working alone in the roof space of a house performing electrical work on house wiring and received a fatal electric shock.
April 2000
A self-
May 2000
The deceased was repairing a forklift. When he was discovered he was next to the forklift with his head trapped beneath it.
May 2000 Colin Hutchins -
On board the Accolade II at Birkenhead, two employees were preparing for unloading and had just finished changing one of the wire ropes and were guiding the other rope onto the drum winch when the cable "snapped" striking the deceased across the chest, killing him.
May 2000 Findings Brambles
On the 28th May 2000 -
June 2000
Eight people were killed in an airline disaster en route to Whyalla from Adelaide.
June 2000
A 3-
June 2000
A collision between a locomotive (which the deceased was driving) and a road train occurred at a level crossing on the property of BHP Whyalla.