198 results for “workplace injury”
22y · Female·unsurvivable head injury
A 22-year-old experienced stable worker and amateur rider died from unsurvivable head injuries sustained when thrown from a horse during track work. The horse suffered a catastrophic leg fracture at approximately 66 km/h…
70y · Male·blunt injuries of the head and neck sustained in a motor vehicle crash
A 70-year-old man with a history of ischaemic heart disease and prior coronary artery bypass surgery suffered a cardiac arrhythmia while driving a racing car at Baskerville Raceway. He lost consciousness, causing his veh…
46y · Male·Head injury
Thomas Anthony Kelly, 46-year-old concreter, died from a head injury sustained when struck by a concrete pumping truck boom at the Pentridge Village building site on 15 Octobe…
24y · Female·hepatic encephalopathy due to hepatic necrosis due to paracetamol toxicity
…resulting in escalating financial debt exceeding $60,000, compounded by recent loss of income from a wrist injury. Her suicide note documented fear of losing custody of her children due to financial circumstances. While …
33y · Male·Crush injury to the head (depressed right temporoparietal skull fracture)
A 33-year-old man died from crush injuries to the head while working on a Land Rover at home. He was working alone beneath the vehicle supported by a single jack stand when it failed and the vehicle crushed him. The jack…
58y · Male·Chest injury sustained in a motor vehicle collision in which he was the pedestri…
A 58-year-old man died from chest injuries sustained when struck by a motor vehicle while washing cars on a busy roadside. He was performing car washing services on Riding Road, Balmoral, a 60 km/h zone with two travel l…
Explosion caused by ignition and deflagration of acetylene leak from a cylinder …
This coronial finding concerns an explosion caused by improper storage and transportation of an acetylene gas cylinder in a work vehicle. Ryan Rayner was seriously injured when an acetylene cylinder stored on its side in…
46y · Male·chest injuries (multiple rib fractures, flail segment, haemopneumothorax); also …
James Leslie Stocks, a 46-year-old man living on an opal mining field in Lightning Ridge NSW, died from chest injuries sustained in a fall into a mine shaft on 7 March 2013. He had consumed significant alcohol, cannabis,…
42y · Male·Pulmonary thromboembolism
…ter surgery at Box Hill Hospital to remove a nail from his left thigh sustained in a work-related nail gun injury. He developed bilateral calf deep venous thromboses despite post-operative bed rest with exercises. The co…
40y · Male·Global ischaemic brain injury following cardiorespiratory arrest during prone re…
…this position for approximately 4 minutes before losing consciousness. He developed global ischaemic brain injury due to cardiorespiratory arrest during this restraint and died at The Alfred Hospital. The autopsy identif…
26y · Female·Blunt chest injury arising from a fall from a horse
Simone Montgomerie, a talented 26-year-old jockey, died from blunt chest trauma after falling from her horse Riahgrand during the 2013 Darwin Cup. The horse reacted unusually to a pedestrian crossing located approximatel…
33y · Female·multiple blunt injuries sustained in a motor vehicle crash
Alice Mwarabu died from multiple blunt injuries sustained in a motor vehicle crash on the Domain Highway, Hobart. She was driving a Toyota Camry at 80-82 km/h in a 70 km/h zone when she failed to negotiate a left-hand cu…
24y · Male·Blunt trauma to the head, neck and chest sustained when a forklift toppled onto …
Joshua John Dingjan, aged 24, was fatally crushed when a Mitsubishi forklift overturned while he was attempting to unload a 1.9-tonne steel pack from a delivery truck parked perpendicular to the factory on a slope of app…
64y · Male·Traumatic asphyxia by hay bale
A 64-year-old man died from traumatic asphyxia when a 1-tonne hay bale tipped onto him while he was repositioning it in a muddy, sloped paddock. He was unloading the bale from a trailer using his customary technique of s…
23y · Male·traumatic brain injury
Dylan Young, 23, died from traumatic brain injury sustained while felling trees in bushland. He had failed a TasTAFE tree-felling course in March 2015 due t…
57y · Male·Gunshot wounds to the head and abdomen
… in Victoria on 17 December 2021 despite planning suicide and harbouring resentment toward Martin over a workplace chainsaw theft incident in 2015. The coroner found that Victorian firearms legislation permits recogniti…
30y · Female·Global cerebral ischaemic injury and bronchopneumonia following PEA arrest in a …
…d entangled in a swing seat armrest on 7 April 2013 and died six days later from global cerebral ischaemic injury. The coronial investigation found no evidence that supervision was inadequate at the time of the incident.…
67y · Male·acute intracranial (subarachnoid) haemorrhage resulting from blunt force trauma …
…ective equipment (chaps, boots, earplugs). The pathologist opined that a helmet would likely have made the injury survivable. Kingston had no formal tree felling training despite 40 years of experience. The coroner found…
11y · Male·Combined effects of electrical shock and jack-knife body position
…and absence of inspection and maintenance systems over 25 years. The Forensic Pathologist found electrical injury markers and concluded he became immobilised by the shock, then unconscious within 8-30 seconds due to jack…
29y · Male·severe chest injuries sustained when struck by a magnetic lifter attached to an …
29-year-old Brandoli Pou, a leading hand at a steel processing facility, was fatally struck in the chest by a magnetic lifter suspended from an overhead crane operated by colleague Mariousz Cyrta. Cyrta experienced a sud…
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