600 to 900 Kiwis die from work-related diseases. The Health and Safety at Work Act aim to reduce workplace deaths and serious injuries by 25 per cent by 2020.

The director of a Matamata construction company whose worker was buried alive has been ordered to four months' home detention.

A man was crushed to death in a workplace incident at a rubbish tip on Auckland's North Shore today.

A person understood to be a forestry worker has been killed in an incident at a forestry block in Tinui.

Devonshire, of West Harbour, was crushed in the incident which happened on her fifth week in the job.

A man has died in a workplace incident in Christchurch this afternoon after he was trapped under the ramp of a truck.

Fullers Group Limited pleaded guilty to two breaches following a ferry crash that injured more than a dozen.

Worksafe will need to show its approach to farm safety is reducing workplace casualties or farmers could find themselves being held to account in the courts.

A Japanese food importing company has been sentenced over the death of a worker in a forklift accident.

A company has been fined after a woman fell causing spinal fractures and a spinal cord injury

Stephen Bishop has had his manslaughter charged dropped after a workplace death for admitting lesser charges.

COMMENT: Are authorities able to monitor and oversee the hundreds of building projects across Auckland, asks Lucy Walker.

Colin Andrew Craig, a 65-year-old from Christchurch, died in hospital after the accident at GVI Logistics in Ivan Jamieson Place, near Christchurch Airport.

A man crushed between two trucks at a Christchurch work site this morning has died in hospital, police have confirmed.

A businessman has been fined for obstructing investigations after children were injured in an inflatable slide collapse.

Terry Milne, who died in a workplace accident this week, was "a great family man with a big heart" and his boss says the Otorohanga man will be deeply missed.

A Northland man has died on a farm after his vehicle rolled this morning.

Police believe John Douglas Howe was struck by a truck in the driveway in South Auckland on Wednesday.

His workmates frantically tried to dig him out but he died at the scene.

A 54-year-old man died in a workplace accident in South Auckland this afternoon.

A man who died in a grader accident was unwell and threw up in the cab before slipping in his vomit, falling out of the machine and running himself over: coroner.

This week's anniversary of the Pike River mining disaster has sparked the need for workplace health and safety attitudes to change.

An Auckland company where an experienced crane operator was crushed to death has been ordered to pay $116,000.

The partner of a forestry worker killed when he was crushed between two felled trees has hit out at a coroner's findings into his death.

A construction company employee was struck by a chain which caused a forehead laceration and damage to the eye.

Local tech company Blerter, has launched an app that aims to revolutionise how health and safety work place hazards and policies are identified.

Age was also a factor, with the highest rates of injury claims coming from workers in the younger, 15 to 24, and older, 65 and over, age groups.

Dairy farming was initially rated as one of the highest-risk industries during health and safety reforms before the Labour Minister, Michael Woodhouse, intervened and changed the criteria, documents show.

A 50-year-old truck driver crushed and lacerated by metal beams while unloading his vehicle at a Hamilton factory remains in a serious but stable condition at Waikato Hospital this morning.