Vic: Death leads to calls for workplace safety

AAP General News (Australia)
12-18-2008
Vic: Death leads to calls for workplace safety

A fruitpicker's died after being run over by a reversing truck amid a spate of workplace
incidents.

The 65-year-old woman was hit by the truck at a vegetable-growing property in Werribee
South around this afternoon.

An ambulance spokeswoman says paramedics attempted to revive the woman when they arrived
but she died at the scene.

WorkSafe Victoria says it's just one of several workplace incidents today.

Earlier in the day .. a man had four fingers and the top joint of a fifth amputated
as he was unloading steel from a truck on a construction site.

And two men were seriously injured when the cherry picker they were working in tipped
them out and they fell about six metres.

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KEYWORD: WORKSAFE VIC (MELBOURNE)

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