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.

An Auckland company where an experienced crane operator was crushed to death has been ordered to pay $116,000.

The partner of a forestry worker killed when he was crushed between two felled trees has hit out at a coroner's findings into his death.

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 believe we need to hold our Govt, whatever stripe it is, to the task of doing what it is there to do. That's what has driven this column, writes Dita De Boni.

Protecting workers with rules is one thing, hindering them actually doing their job or sending them broke adhering to rules is another.

Up to 300,000 working New Zealanders won't have access to one of the most effective ways they can keep themselves and their mates safe at work, writes Helen Kelly.

Law change aims to reduce legacy of workplace harm, write Christie Hall and Zena Razoki.

Delays to improving New Zealand's workplace health and safety regime seem to demonstrate either a complete lack of understanding of the causes of the country's poor track record in this area or a....

Business NZ has called for an end to political manipulation of ACC levy settings by successive Governments.

While new legislation doesn’t in itself protect anyone, it does set new expectations and provides the foundations for a much-needed change in Kiwi culture, writes Z Energy’s Julian Hughes.

A roofer who plummeted head-first two storeys on to concrete says it has not put him off the job.

An employee who had his right leg amputated after it got pulled into a wood chipper will be given $35,000 in reparations.

Justice Minister Amy Adams declared she wanted the crime of corporate manslaughter to be added to the workplace health and safety reform legislation currently before Parliament.

The drain on ACC will continue as long as Talley's continues to insist its' health and safety scheme is working, writes Dita De Boni.

No charges will be laid after a mystery chemical at a south Auckland shopping mall put three paramedics in hospital yesterday.