202 results for “environmental injury”
37y · Female·Hypoxic brain injury consequent upon hanging
Louise Litis, 37, died from hypoxic brain injury following a hanging at Northpark Private Hospital's Mother and Baby Unit on 7 December 2007. She had sever…
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…
69y · Male·Chest and head injuries sustained in a quad bike incident (driver)
A 69-year-old man died from chest and head injuries sustained in a quad bike rollover on his rural property. He was operating an older Honda quad bike without a safety helmet or crush protection device. Toxicological ana…
5y · Male·Hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy due to near-drowning
A 5-year-old boy who could not swim drowned in a public aquatic centre after crossing from a shallow ramp area into a 1.2-metre deep main pool, unobserved by his parents. He was underwater for 90 seconds before being ret…
32y · Male·crush injuries sustained in a rock fall
Nathaniel Beesley, a 32-year-old rope access technician, was fatally struck by a rock weighing approximately 44 tonnes whilst undertaking manual scaling operations on the East Wall of an open-pit iron ore mine in Tasmani…
76y · Female·Immersion (with underlying cause undetermined in circumstances of a fall into a …
76-year-old woman with vascular dementia and wandering behaviour was found submerged in a courtyard water fountain at an aged care facility after a fall. She remained unattended in a hazardous area for approximately 51 m…
37y · Male·Multiple injuries including lung lacerations and contusions, multiple rib fractu…
Andrew Grant Baulderstone, aged 37, died from multiple injuries when refractory material collapsed from the lining of a pellet kiln at BHP's Whyalla plant while he was jackhammering. The collapse resulted from failures i…
45y · Male·Gunshot injury to the chest (self-inflicted)
Scott Andrew Blanchard, a 45-year-old Detective Sergeant with the Western Australian Police Gang Crime Squad, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound while on duty near Kalgoorlie. In June 2015, following a trip to Thai…
45y · Male·Abdominal injuries from being struck by reversing front-end loader
Sean Morgan-Smith, a 45-year-old Australia Post delivery worker, was struck by a reversing front-end loader while delivering mail on a residential footpath in Huntingdale, Western Australia on 24 June 2015. He sustained …
64y · Female·multiple injuries sustained in head-on motor vehicle collision
A 64-year-old remote area nurse died in a head-on vehicle collision on a remote unsealed road whilst transporting a critically ill patient to hospital for emergency care. The coroner found that the primary cause was driv…
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…
57y · Male·Massive soft tissue and bony injury from crush injuries sustained when a transmi…
Michael James Cameron, a 57-year-old experienced crane operator, died when a transmission tower section fell on him during a lifting operation. The crane's free fall function was supposed to have been disabled two years …
22y · Male·Head and neck injuries sustained in a train incident
…nts with psychotic symptoms and severe anxiety may not disclose suicidal intent, and the importance of environmental safety measures at transport hubs.
Unknown·Ms Choi: hypoxic brain damage due to drowning/immersion due to rafting accident;…
Two language students died following a white water rafting incident on the Tully River. A collision between rafts diverted one raft into a hazardous channel, causing it to strike Sieve Rock and flip. Both occupants becam…
46y · Male·Cardiac failure due to blood loss from traumatic laceration to right thigh susta…
Samuel Pugh, a 46-year-old mining contractor, died from cardiac failure due to blood loss after being struck by a 219 kg falling rock underground at a Queensland mine. He suffered a severe laceration to his right thigh w…
89y · Female·Blunt force head injury on a background of ischaemic and valvular heart disease
An 89-year-old woman with dementia and cardiac disease died from blunt force head injury sustained during an assault by another resident with alcohol-related dementia in an aged care facility. Th…
18y · Male·respiratory failure secondary to closed chest trauma
Daniel Madeley, 18-year-old apprentice toolmaker, died from respiratory failure secondary to closed chest trauma after being entangled in a Soviet-era horizontal boring machine at his workplace in June 2004. The machine …
2y · Male·Penetrating injuries to the head and neck caused by multiple dog bites
…ng that dogs without known aggression history can still cause fatal injuries; and the critical role of environmental design and regulatory oversight in preventing such tragedies. The coroner identified systemic failures…
48y · Male·Crush injury to the chest from collapse of a gazebo structure
A 48-year-old qualified builder, Stephen James Peace, was fatally crushed when a gazebo he was constructing collapsed on 2 May 2006. The structure was designed to be supported on steel posts embedded 900mm deep in concre…
25y · Male·acute heat stroke
Trooper Angus Lawrence, a 25-year-old soldier, died from acute heat stroke on 10 November 2004 during a military training exercise at Mount Bundey, NT. He collapsed during a patrol and despite rapid evacuation and intens…
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