18-08-2003
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.
12-09-2003
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.
18-09-2003
A person carrying out repairs to a dam drowned when the boat overturned.
19-09-2003
An employee sustained fatal injuries from a 5.7 metres fall through fibreglass sheeting while working on the roof of a shearing shed.
22-10-2003
A worker sustained fatal crush injuries while attempting to load a trailer onto a truck using a vehicle loading crane.
09-11-2003
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).
13-12-2003
A volunteer sustained fatal injuries after falling 2.7 metres from a freestanding veranda.
21-12-2003 Asam Abdic - Findings Blaslov Fishing
A deckhand drowned after falling overboard from a prawn trawler.
19-01-2004
A man sustained fatal injuries when he fell from the roof of a single storey house.
07-02-2004
A self employed farmer sustained fatal injuries when the tractor tyre he was inflating exploded.
25-02-2004 Trevor Benson - Business SOLD/No further action taken
A worker sustained fatal crush injuries when the stacker of the crushing plant he was working on collapsed.
01-03-2004
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.
06-03-2004
A child suffered fatal injuries when the trailer he was riding on overturned.
14-03-2004
A self employed contractor suffered fatal injuries after falling from a roof.
16-04-2004
A worker sustained fatal injuries when the cutting disc of the angle grinder he was using disintegrated.
01-05-2004 Kerry Dean Mercer - Findings LEXAID
A worker sustained fatal injuries when he was hit by a prime mover while inspecting underground fuel tank inspection/filling points.
04-05-2004
A truck driver sustained fatal injuries when the truck he was driving veered off the road.
24-05-2004
A man suffered fatal injuries when he was trapped in the rubbish holding compartment of a waste truck.
05-06-2004 Daniel Madeley - Findings EEAGTS
A 1st year apprentice toolmaker sustained fatal injuries when he became entangled around the spindle of the horizontal boring machine he was operating.