161 results for “fall from height”
74y · Female·Chest and abdominal injuries from fall from cliff; possible terminal drowning
Judith Anne Emery, aged 74, died from chest and abdominal injuries sustained in a fall from a cliff near her retirement village, with possible te…
79y · Male·Displaced cervical vertebral fracture with secondary carotid artery dissection r…
A 79-year-old man suffered a catastrophic fall from a 3.5-metre ladder while performing home maintenance work on his property. He had recovered from a str…
25y · Male·Injuries sustained in a fall from height into water
Bradlee Maher, a 25-year-old man, died from injuries sustained in a fall from the Westgate Bridge into water on 26 December 2010. He had called emergen…
72y · Male·Upper cervical spine injury sustained in a fall from a ladder
A 72-year-old man suffered a fall from a 3-metre ladder during home garden maintenance, sustaining a severe upper cervical spine injury (C2 f…
65y · Male·multiple injuries sustained in a fall from a height
…rmic strap. During winching, he lost consciousness—likely due to thoracic compression and vascular collapse from the strop technique, exacerbated by his cardiac and obesity-related comorbidities. He slipped from the harn…
27y · Male·multiple injuries
A 27-year-old British man died from multiple injuries after falling from a five-storey building on New Year's Eve 2016. He had ingested LSD, ke…
37y · Male·Drowning
…d by drowning at Barge Express in Darwin after consuming significant alcohol (blood alcohol 0.28%). He fell from a tyre being used as an access point to board the vessel when no compliant gangway was in place. The fall c…
Male·Multiple injuries sustained as a result of a fall from height caused by swing st…
…ti-storey building. The scaffold had been installed by Allscaff Systems in a manner deviating significantly from the manufacturer's design, with the counterweight secured using friction couplers rather than as a positive…
40y · Male·multiple injuries from fall from building
Mark Douglas Springgay, a 40-year-old man with chronic schizophrenia, died from multiple injuries sustained after falling from the Transport SA building in Walkerville on 19 April 2008. H…
53y · Male·Drowning
…-21 March 2012. While intoxicated, he exited a vehicle during a night-time beach drive in darkness and fell from a nearby cliff (2-6 metres high), sustaining fractures of both pelvic rami and right sacroiliac joint dislo…
Male·Mr Gleeson: fatal chest injuries from fall; Mr Lucas: chest and abdominal injuri…
…2013 while replacing flask linkages on an unsafe, unsecured timber platform over a 35-metre drop. Both died from crush injuries. Michael Welsh was engulfed by a mud rush on 17 January 2014 and died from asphyxiation. Gle…
59y · Male·Complications arising from blunt force trauma to the head consistent with a fall
…ing approximately 1 metre high. He underwent emergency neurosurgery but deteriorated and died 15 days later from complications of blunt head trauma including subdural haemorrhage, bronchopneumonia, and hypoxic organ dama…
28y · Male·drowning
A 28-year-old scaffolder died by drowning after falling from a cantilevered scaffold under a loading jetty while dismantling it. The scaffold collapsed when he …
55y · Male·Traumatic brain injury caused by blunt force to the head sustained in a fall
Rodney Bates, a 55-year-old in custody at Cessnock Correctional Centre, died from traumatic brain injury sustained in a fall on 2 April 2015. He had experienced recurrent unexplained loss o…
88y · Male·Blunt head trauma sustained in a fall from a ladder
An 88-year-old man died from blunt head trauma after falling from a 2-metre wooden ladder while pruning a hedge. The ladder lacked safet…
27y · Male·Multiple injuries sustained in a fall from height
Reece Pullen, 27, died from multiple injuries sustained in a fall from a seventh-floor balcony on 27 October 2021. He had a history of …
28y · Male·The available evidence does not allow a finding as to the cause of death
…ial difficulties including significant gambling debts totalling over $38,000 and had been withdrawing money from his partner's account. On the day he went missing, he was found at a cliff edge in the park and told his pa…
35y · Male·multiple injuries received when he fell from a 13th floor balcony
Patrick Fisher, aged 35, died on 7 February 2018 after falling from a 13th floor apartment balcony while evading police attempting to execute arrest warrants. He was a…
26y · Male·drowning
Benjamin Lippiatt, 26, disappeared from a cruise ship in the Coral Sea on 29 March 2019. After consuming approximately 13 standard drinks over 8 ho…
41y · Male·multiple blunt force injuries from fall from fourth floor of apartment block
Brent Reginald Pottinger, 41, died from multiple blunt force injuries after falling from a fourth-floor apartment while attempting to access his pa…
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