Video shows wooden pallets and a pair of spectacles were not burned after the explosion.

A rubbish contractor crushed by a truck yesterday is now in a stable condition.

A woman is dead and a man critical after two workplace accidents in less than 12 hours.

Victim believed to have become trapped in machinery.

Jim Adams died five days before the 13th anniversary of his eldest son's mining death.

A worker was left a tetraplegic when he was struck by a harvester.

A man has been seriously injured in a farming accident in Central Otago.

Injured man had been trapped under a tree on a farm on Mataraua Rd in Kaikohe.

COMMENT: Many rescue workers have been killed trying to recover victims.

18-year-old builder killed in workplace accident on remote West Coast property.

Community mourns loss of regional council staffer Michael Taylor after farm mishap.

A new employee at a meatworks lost his hand in an accident with an auger.

Central Fire Service shift manager Murray Dunbar said emergency services were notified of a 'refrigerant leak' at the Countdown supermarket this afternoon.

A man run over by a loader at the country's southernmost deep-water port has died.

Rubbish truck crashes into Wellington home.

COMMENT: Every time Bernie Monk and his Pike River people come pressing politicians for the mine to be re-entered I wonder why.

The man was pinned by plasterboard weighing up to half a tonne, police said.

A New Zealand man has died while working on the massive stadium build in Qatar for football's 2022 World Cup.

Christmas parties are a great time to blow off steam with colleagues, but they often end in disaster for the inebriated.

A Queenstown man's arm was mangled to the bone after it became caught in a conveyor belt at his workplace.

COMMENT: When are tragedies that claim dozens of lives something more sinister, and are we doing enough to serve the interests of justice?

Statistics NZ data shows cleaners, rubbish collectors labourers pest controllers, hotel porters, and courier drivers have the highest rate of claims for injury at work.

Every time Deanna Trevarthen sees a Worksafe television advertisemen she shuts her eyes until her partner changes the channel.

An earthmoving company has been ordered to pay more than $140,000 after an employee was killed by an exploding bitumen tank last year.

Federated Farmers is urging farmers to tackle the issue of methamphetamine in the workplace. Experts say new Health and Safety regulations mean employers are now legally obligated to take steps to mitigate the risk. Made with funding from NZ On AIr

Environment Canterbury and Department of Conservation move follows this week's double fatality in Northland.

More than half of fatalities on farms last year involved experienced workers carrying out routine jobs, new data from WorkSafe shows.

A woman was thrown from the back of a 4WD ute when it rolled on an Auckland beach.

A 50-year-old man who died after the quad bike he was riding crashed on a farm near Ashburton has been named.

Three Walmart employees have been charged for killing a shoplifter, as they were preventing him from stealing DVDs.