When a prisoner who was having a bad day threw a billiard ball at Jason Gould, the billiard ball was the last object the prison officer was able to see clearly with his left eye.

A Melbourne-based bakery company was convicted and fined $60,000 after it failed to install a replacement guard on a dough processing machine, which resulted in an incident where a worker had his arm severed.

The Auditor-General’s report revealed that a case wherein a pregnant nurse was kicked in the stomach was merely categorised as a “minor incident.”

The defective brakes of a rubbish truck that caused a disastrous crash in Perth four years ago cost the waste management company Transpacific Industries a $363,000 fine.

Upcoming plans on expanding the role of the national workplace safety regulator was believed to be a disaster waiting to happen, according to statements from lawyers who explained that the organisation’s failures from previous regulations suggest that it is not up to the task at hand.