Traffic controller fatally crushed in workplace incident
WorkSafe Victoria is investigating an incident in Wahring, in which a 64-year-old man died after a truck trailer tipped onto him. It is understood that gravel was being unloaded from the fully extended tipping trailer when it tipped into a culvert and onto the traffic controller.
The death takes the workplace fatality toll to 23 for 2022, six fewer than at the same time last year.
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