A Filipino crewman working aboard a logging ship at Port of Tauranga suffered serious lacerations this morning after a crane-operated winch wire struck him across his chest and neck.

A 53-year-old Napier construction worker was killed in a freak workplace accident after being struck by a large steel beam.

Police staff had more than 4000 work-related injuries over the last three years, claiming compensation for things like concussion, hearing loss, hernias and stings.

In 23 years as a scaffolder, Wally Noble came to rely on other people to fence off any hazard on a building site.

A young Snow Planet employee was taken to hospital after spending an hour trapped in a machine with his arm caught in a conveyer belt.

More than a third of farm fatalities involve quad bikes, and the number of injuries from quad bikes is increasing at an "alarming'' rate, according to a new study.

Services around the country are being held to mark Workers Memorial Day today - a time to remember those who have been killed or injured at work and their friends and families.

Two men are recovering from burns after the power pylon they were working on exploded, cutting electricity to nearly 800 homes.

Two linesmen have suffered superficial burns in an explosion in Warkworth, north of Auckland.

A Federated Farmers leader has called on a coroner to look into rural suicides instead of concentrating on quad bike deaths.

A man's been taken to Wellington Hospital's emergency department after seriously injuring his leg while felling a tree.

The parents of a forestry worker who was crushed by a falling pine tree fought back tears yesterday as they joined a campaign to improve safety standards in the industry.

The grieving mother of a dead Kiwi soldier asked for the return of his clothes but was told they were burned as the items were considered "bio-toxic".

Twenty armed forces personnel have been killed in the past three years - with a number of deaths linked to training failures and gaps.

A worker run over and killed by a forklift in an early morning industrial accident in Christchurch today has been named.

A stormwater project in Freemans Bay has cost ratepayers $201,000 and dangerous underground working conditions have raised safety concerns, according to a source.

A 23-year-old farm worker suffered head and chest injuries when his quad bike crashed into a ditch in Marlborough last night.

A coroner has recommended forestry workers use machines to pile up felled logs instead of doing it manually after a Hawkes Bay forestry worker was killed.