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.

Port Waikato man run over by his own tractor.

A young man died in an incident while repiling a house on Oneone Rd, Harihari.

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 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.

Changes to school toilets unlikely, despite death of 9-year-old boy.

Solid Energy's attempts to seal Pike River mine will be met with a road block after the owners of the access road gave the victim's families legal control of the road.

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.

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.

A person has died in an accident at a flooring factory in Silverdale, north of Auckland, this morning.

A man who suffered severe burns in a Christchurch factory incident has died in hospital.

A fertiliser spreading company has been ordered to pay $150,000 after a worker was killed on the job.

The employers of a Taranaki forestry worker who died after an 800kg log fell on him have been ordered to pay more than $97,000 in reparation to his widow.