Privatisation should only be allowed if there is evidence it will improve the system, former ACC chairman Ross Wilson says.

A roofing contractor is dead after falling through a roof at an industrial site in west Auckland today.

Several sheets of glass fell on men unloading a shipping container, one breaking and causing fatal wounds to a worker yesterday, police say.

Large sheets of glass crashed down and killed a man at an industrial site last night. Four of his colleagues were injured trying to rescue him.

Police slam the "negligent behaviour" of a person who informed the wrong family about a tragic logging death after listening in on a police scanner.

An eavesdropper informed the wrong family that a relative of their's had died following a forestry accident today.

The Department of Labour has confirmed it is prosecuting an Auckland secondary school over a fatal boiler explosion in June.

Auckland secondary school says it will vigorously defend any charges it might face over fatal explosion.

Over twice as many men - 31 - died at work between July and November when compared to the same period in 2007.

A bomb disposal expert was killed by an artillery shell explosion just weeks after he returned from active service in Afghanistan.

An air force flight sergeant killed in a blast at Waiouru Military Camp today returned from service in Afghanistan just weeks ago, the Air Force chief says.

The Defence Force has released the name of the flight sergeant killed at Waiouru Military Camp in the central North Island today.

Cellphone use may not affect drivers' insurance claims in the case of an accident, but employers are taking a hard line.