Fullers Group Limited pleaded guilty to two breaches following a ferry crash that injured more than a dozen.

Worksafe will need to show its approach to farm safety is reducing workplace casualties or farmers could find themselves being held to account in the courts.

Police have released the name of a man killed while working at a Huntly manufacturing business.

The quarry industry wants the public's help to improve safety after four deaths in the sector so far this year.

A Japanese food importing company has been sentenced over the death of a worker in a forklift accident.

A company has been fined after a woman fell causing spinal fractures and a spinal cord injury

Stephen Bishop has had his manslaughter charged dropped after a workplace death for admitting lesser charges.

COMMENT: Are authorities able to monitor and oversee the hundreds of building projects across Auckland, asks Lucy Walker.

Colin Andrew Craig, a 65-year-old from Christchurch, died in hospital after the accident at GVI Logistics in Ivan Jamieson Place, near Christchurch Airport.

Terry Milne, who died in a workplace accident this week, was "a great family man with a big heart" and his boss says the Otorohanga man will be deeply missed.

A Northland man has died on a farm after his vehicle rolled this morning.

A Canterbury boss has been fined thousands of dollars after his employee's thumb was severed by an unguarded machine used to cut firewood.

Double-amputee hit with fine for parking his specialist van across two car spaces because he needed room to exit the vehicle in his wheelchair.

Police believe John Douglas Howe was struck by a truck in the driveway in South Auckland on Wednesday.

His workmates frantically tried to dig him out but he died at the scene.

A 54-year-old man died in a workplace accident in South Auckland this afternoon.

A man who died in a grader accident was unwell and threw up in the cab before slipping in his vomit, falling out of the machine and running himself over: coroner.

This week's anniversary of the Pike River mining disaster has sparked the need for workplace health and safety attitudes to change.

A construction company employee was struck by a chain which caused a forehead laceration and damage to the eye.

Local tech company Blerter, has launched an app that aims to revolutionise how health and safety work place hazards and policies are identified.

Age was also a factor, with the highest rates of injury claims coming from workers in the younger, 15 to 24, and older, 65 and over, age groups.

Dairy farming was initially rated as one of the highest-risk industries during health and safety reforms before the Labour Minister, Michael Woodhouse, intervened and changed the criteria, documents show.

A 50-year-old truck driver crushed and lacerated by metal beams while unloading his vehicle at a Hamilton factory remains in a serious but stable condition at Waikato Hospital this morning.

A foreign worker at a luxury Waikato resort narrowly escaped being crushed by a three-tonne tractor with faulty brakes.

An Auckland ferry crash that left more than a dozen people wounded was allegedly down to faulty technology and inadequately-trained staff.

The managing director Salters Cartage says he is struggling to deal with the death of 24-year-old Jamey Lee Bowring, killed in an explosion at his business.

The family of a contractor seriously injured when a digger was hit by a train last year will receive $110,000 from KiwiRail in reparation.

The manager of a massive inflatable slide which collapsed injuring six children at a Wairarapa A&P show instructed his "power of attorney" to appear in court on his behalf.

Officials might investigate calls from the parents of a young forestry worker killed when a tree fell on him to overhaul the way workplace incidents are investigated.

I am concerned the under-representation of self-responsibility creates a false sense of who exactly is responsible for safety in a workplace, writes Michael Barnett.