Experts are still trying to identify a mystery chemical at a South Auckland shopping mall that put three paramedics in hospital yesterday.

A man killed when he was trapped under a heavy vehicle at a Bay of Plenty quarry today was a 24-year-old from Tauranga, police say.

A forestry worker has died after reportedly being struck by a falling log in a remote forestry site.

The tragic events in the Winz office in Ashburton last September have resulted in action before the Courts. The obvious being the alleged offender facing multiple criminal charges, including murder.

One person is dead following an accident on a work site in Port Waikato this morning.

A gas leak in Ponsonby led to the evacuation of many businesses in the area last night.

80-year-old Tararua farmer Donald Robbie was driving his farm truck, with 4.5c metres of gravel down a steep hill when his brakes failed.

A man escaped with his life when the concrete-cutting saw he was operating kicked back, slicing open his throat.

A teenage worker remains in hospital after being seriously injured when he was hit by a digger bucket yesterday.

A grandfather was killed in a “horrific” accident after his future son-in-law accidentally trapped him in an industrial oven that reached temperatures of 280C.

An as of yet unidentified person could be guilty of manslaughter after a roofer was electrocuted in 2011, a coroner has found.

A Southland farmer has been ordered to pay $152,000 in fines and reparations after a worker on his farm was crushed to death in August last year.

Solid Energy has announced it will not re-enter the Pike River Mine drift because the company considers the risks to life remain too high. Read the latest selection of Your Views on the decision.

Nearly a quarter of agriculture, forestry, and fishery workers had a work-related injury claim accepted by the Accident Compensation Corporation last year, Statistics New Zealand says.

A person is believed to have died in a workplace incident at Port Lyttelton today.

A meat worker who took a hook through his head from behind was dragged with the chain, as his workmate rushed to stop the machine.

Machines which fell trees under remote control by operators standing at safe distances are being hailed as important new tools and a world first for reducing deaths and injuries in forests.

Three teenagers must now cope without their parents, after their father was crushed between two trucks on Monday, five years after their mother died.

A man has died after being crushed between two trucks in Henderson this morning.

Forestry company HarvestPro has been ordered to pay $120,000 in fines and reparation after one of its workers was hit by a log weighing more than a tonne.

A Hastings council tractor driver has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing the death a 4-year-old boy in a horrific mowing accident last year.