A teenage worker remains in hospital after being seriously injured when he was hit by a digger bucket yesterday.

A crane driver is stuck inside a toppled container crane at Wellington Port this morning.

A man is lucky to be alive after he was nearly crushed by a concrete slab at a demolition site this afternoon.

A grandfather was killed in a “horrific” accident after his future son-in-law accidentally trapped him in an industrial oven that reached temperatures of 280C.

An as of yet unidentified person could be guilty of manslaughter after a roofer was electrocuted in 2011, a coroner has found.

A Southland farmer has been ordered to pay $152,000 in fines and reparations after a worker on his farm was crushed to death in August last year.

Solid Energy has announced it will not re-enter the Pike River Mine drift because the company considers the risks to life remain too high. Read the latest selection of Your Views on the decision.

A person is believed to have died in a workplace incident at Port Lyttelton today.

A meat worker who took a hook through his head from behind was dragged with the chain, as his workmate rushed to stop the machine.

Machines which fell trees under remote control by operators standing at safe distances are being hailed as important new tools and a world first for reducing deaths and injuries in forests.

Three teenagers must now cope without their parents, after their father was crushed between two trucks on Monday, five years after their mother died.

A man has died after being crushed between two trucks in Henderson this morning.

Forestry company HarvestPro has been ordered to pay $120,000 in fines and reparation after one of its workers was hit by a log weighing more than a tonne.

A Hastings council tractor driver has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing the death a 4-year-old boy in a horrific mowing accident last year.

One wrong step caused a horrific workplace accident which nearly took a man's life - and has now cost him his livelihood and will soon cost him his house.

Fifty-one workers were killed while they were doing their jobs last year, the Council of Trade Unions says.

A Hastings engineering firm will pay fines and compensation of $130,000 for failing to take all reasonable steps to protect the safety of worker.

A man injured in a fall at Speight's Brewery earlier this week has died.