Tradie is electrocuted in horror workplace accident just hours after another worker was killed
A truck driver and a worker who were felling trees were killed in separate work-related tragedies in Western Australia on Tuesday.
The tragedies unfolded around 8am in Donnybrook, 200km south of Perth, when a man was fatally injured while removing a wheelie bin from the front garden of a residential property.
Police and ambulance personnel rushed to the scene on Owen Street, where police found the man under a truck.
The 57-year-old man died on the spot.
WorkSafe WA investigators attended the scene and conducted an investigation, a WorkSafe spokeswoman said.
At 1.30pm emergency services rushed to Lilian Road in Maida Vale, in Perth’s far east.
“It is believed a worker was electrocuted while pruning trees near high-voltage power lines,” the spokeswoman said.
Researchers from WorkSafe and Building and Energy arrived on site.
A truck driver and a worker who were felling trees died in separate work-related tragedies in Western Australia on Tuesday (file photo)
‘The investigators investigated the circumstances of the incidents to ensure compliance and prevent similar incidents in the future.’
WorkSafe Commissioner Sally North and Director of Energy Safety Saj Abdoolakhan expressed their condolences to the families, friends and colleagues of the workers.