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Male·suicide
Russell Peter Nash, a serving South Australian Police officer and Bandmaster, died by suicide in 2021. Before his death, he complained of bullying and harassment by his Chief Inspector. His former supervisor subsequently…
38y · Female·Multiple injuries sustained when struck by a train
Natasha Stojkoski, a 38-year-old sales assistant at The Good Guys, sustained a workplace injury in October 2018 involving a Work Assisted Vehicle incident affecting her back, shoulders and neck. Subsequently, she reporte…
57y · Male·Smoke inhalation
Ashleigh Peter Mills, aged 57, died from smoke inhalation in a house fire on 31 August 2020. The fire started from a discarded cigarette in an armchair where his housemate had been smoking and drinking. Multiple preventa…
50y · Male·Gunshot wound to the head
A 50-year-old RAAF Flight Sergeant with Major Depressive Disorder and anxiety died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head after police responded to a domestic disturbance. He had received appropriate, evidence-b…
21y · Male·Complications of multiple blunt force injuries sustained when voluntarily exitin…
Jerwin Royupa, a 21-year-old Filipino agricultural graduate, died on 15 March 2019 from injuries sustained when he exited a moving vehicle. He had arrived in Australia on a Subclass 407 training visa, sponsored by an agr…
Male·Multiple injuries due to or as a consequence of concrete wall collapse
Two workers, Ashley Morris (34) and Humberto Leite (55), were fatally crushed by collapsing concrete wall panels on 6 October 2016 while installing foul water settling tanks at Eagle Farm Racecourse. The work system desi…
20y · Male·gunshot wounds to the chest and abdomen
Bradley Balzan, 20, died on 23 December 2020 after being shot twice by NSW Police officer SC Vingerhoed during a police operation. The fatal encounter began when Nepean PACT officers stopped Bradley on a street without e…
55y · Male·Complications of traumatic head injury sustained in a workplace incident (pallia…
David Klingberg, a 55-year-old experienced pile testing engineer, died from traumatic head injury sustained when an auxiliary line hook on a piling rig struck him in the face at a construction site. The hook became jamme…
1y · Female·hypoxic brain injury caused by pressure to the neck from entrapment on a loop-to…
Ebony Thompson, aged 22 months, died from hypoxic brain injury caused by neck entrapment in a loop-topped chickencoop gate at a childcare centre. She became trapped while standing on a tricycle attempting to view chicken…
31y · Male·asphyxia due to self-inflicted hanging
Benjamin Marshall, aged 31, died by self-inflicted hanging in October 2019, over two years after discharge from the Royal Australian Navy. He suffered from Bipolar Affective Disorder (BPAD), a genetic condition not causa…
27y · Female·Multiple blunt force injuries in the context of a single vehicle rollover
Grace Moulding, a 27-year-old British woman, died in a single-vehicle rollover on the Sandover Highway while driving an unregistered Art Centre vehicle at an estimated 116 km/h on an unsealed road. Critical failures incl…
25y · Male·Electrocution
Jordan Robert Crocker, a 25-year-old qualified electrician, was fatally electrocuted in a roof space while diagnosing a U4 fault code on a Daikin ducted air conditioner system. The circuit supplying the air conditioner w…
64y · Male·chest and abdominal injuries due to being crushed by a regrowth tree
Raymond Penney, 64, died when struck by a regrowth tree during mechanical felling operations in a commercial forestry coupe. The old growth tree (68m, 50-60 tonnes) was being felled using excavator-assisted mechanical pu…
44y · Male·unascertained - may have been injury from fall, drowning, or predation from mari…
David Ingram, a 44-year-old deckhand, disappeared from the cargo vessel Maersk Mover on 24 September 2021 in the Indian Ocean off Exmouth, WA. He had an undiagnosed paranoid schizophrenia with a history of anxiety, depre…
50y · Female·Hanging
Karla Lee Jordan, a 50-year-old accountant at Ballarat Health Services, died by hanging on 29 August 2019. The coroner found workplace stress from a toxic workplace culture was the primary suicide stressor. Following a r…
32y · Female·mixed drug toxicity including phenobarbitone
A 32-year-old woman with borderline personality disorder and depression died by intentional self-administration of pentobarbitone (Lethabarb) accessed from her workplace. She had experienced extensive family violence in …
33y · Male·hanging
Moses Kellie, aged 33, died by hanging at Villawood Immigration Detention Centre in January 2019 after four years in immigration detention. He had schizophrenia, PTSD, and substance dependence, with a prior suicide attem…
41y · Male·Unascertained - may have resulted from injuries sustained in fall from vessel or…
Tanghui Huang, a 41-year-old Chinese able seaman, disappeared from a bulk carrier vessel off Dampier, Western Australia on 21 April 2012. He was last seen painting the mooring winch at 11:30 am and was presumed to have f…
29y · Male·butane and propane toxicity from inhalation of canola oil spray propellants
Robert Parnell, aged 29, died from butane and propane toxicity after inhaling propellants from a can of canola oil spray in a prison kitchen toilet. He had a long history of polysubstance use including solvent sniffing d…
49y · Male·Traumatic head injury sustained in a fall from the roof of a work vehicle
A 49-year-old air conditioning contractor died from traumatic head injury sustained when he fell from the roof of his work van while securing equipment. He was working at height without a harness or fall protection, and …
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