Alerts & Incidents

In an incident at the Glen Shopping Centre in Victoria in June 2018, a JLG R1932R scissor lift dropped approximately 3 metres without notice while an air con plumber was working on it. Luckily nobody was seriously hurt on this occasion. This was not an isolated incident. The CFMEU advised members

Axedale Holdings Pty Ltd trading as Shaws Cartage Contractors, was fined in relation to the deaths of two labourers.

Most workers on the Inpex and Wheatstone Offshore HUC projects would be aware by now that the CFMEU is pursuing Clough and MAS for millions of dollars of unpaid superannuation. 

We all know that coming closer to the end of the year, bosses start pushing harder to get jobs finished and corners start getting cut.

In just a 3 week period, 8 construction workers were killed in Australia just recently. Three of them in Victoria.

Wednesday 25 November 2015 was a very dark day in Western Australia with three tragic, preventable fatalities. The victims were two Irish ceiling fixers both in their 20’s and a 32 year old scaffolder.

1st incident

A 29 year old man, CFMEU Member Carlos Araujo, has died after being crushed in an incident at the Specialised Concrete Pumping company yard.

The building industry is dangerous, but workplace fatalities are unacceptable.