Two dead in separate workplace incidents in Victoria


Tuesday, 22 March, 2022

Two dead in separate workplace incidents in Victoria

WorkSafe Victoria is investigating the deaths of two workers who were killed in unrelated workplace incidents on Friday. A 53-year-old crane operator died in Dandenong South after he was crushed by steel beams weighing several tonnes at about 11.15 am. It is understood that a coupling failed, causing the beams to fall on the worker.

Less than three hours later, in Kyabram, a 56-year-old worker died after a tractor-spreader combination he was operating overturned. The man was driving the vehicle on a road when it jack-knifed and rolled at about 2 pm.

The two deaths bring the workplace fatality toll to nine for 2022, six fewer than at the same time last year.

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