Community mourns loss of regional council staffer Michael Taylor after farm mishap.

A new employee at a meatworks lost his hand in an accident with an auger.

Central Fire Service shift manager Murray Dunbar said emergency services were notified of a 'refrigerant leak' at the Countdown supermarket this afternoon.

A man run over by a loader at the country's southernmost deep-water port has died.

Rubbish truck crashes into Wellington home.

COMMENT: Every time Bernie Monk and his Pike River people come pressing politicians for the mine to be re-entered I wonder why.

The man was pinned by plasterboard weighing up to half a tonne, police said.

A New Zealand man has died while working on the massive stadium build in Qatar for football's 2022 World Cup.

Changes to school toilets unlikely, despite death of 9-year-old boy.

A Queenstown man's arm was mangled to the bone after it became caught in a conveyor belt at his workplace.

COMMENT: When are tragedies that claim dozens of lives something more sinister, and are we doing enough to serve the interests of justice?

Statistics NZ data shows cleaners, rubbish collectors labourers pest controllers, hotel porters, and courier drivers have the highest rate of claims for injury at work.

Every time Deanna Trevarthen sees a Worksafe television advertisemen she shuts her eyes until her partner changes the channel.

An earthmoving company has been ordered to pay more than $140,000 after an employee was killed by an exploding bitumen tank last year.

Federated Farmers is urging farmers to tackle the issue of methamphetamine in the workplace. Experts say new Health and Safety regulations mean employers are now legally obligated to take steps to mitigate the risk. Made with funding from NZ On AIr

Environment Canterbury and Department of Conservation move follows this week's double fatality in Northland.

More than half of fatalities on farms last year involved experienced workers carrying out routine jobs, new data from WorkSafe shows.

A woman was thrown from the back of a 4WD ute when it rolled on an Auckland beach.

A person has died in an accident at a flooring factory in Silverdale, north of Auckland, this morning.

A man who suffered severe burns in a Christchurch factory incident has died in hospital.

A fertiliser spreading company has been ordered to pay $150,000 after a worker was killed on the job.

The employers of a Taranaki forestry worker who died after an 800kg log fell on him have been ordered to pay more than $97,000 in reparation to his widow.

Worker seriously injured his arm at Sanford while using a fish de-heading machine which was deemed a 5/5 hazard risk.

Onside has launched an online health and safety app for farmers to make compliance with the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 easier.

WorkSafe New Zealand's Safer Farms programme is working with the rural sector to promote good health and safety practices.

A 21-year-old needed hospital treatment after being bitten on the penis by a redback spider while sitting on the toilet in Sydney.

People should be able to come home at the end of their working day. In New Zealand, that is less sure than in Australia or the United Kingdom.

A cleaner caught on a meat hook in a terrible workplace accident has lifted the lid on simmering tensions at the country's largest meat works.

COMMENT: No one wants to see a worker, colleague or friend hurt. No boss wants to have to tell a family member that their loved one is in hospital or worse still, won't be coming home ever again, writes Grant McDonald.

Forest owners could have been liable for fines of up to $3 million if worker Blair Palmer had been killed by a falling tree today rather than last week.