Katherine tradesman Dwayne Beaumont killed in Darwin workplace incident   

ABC News
April 30 2019


Katherine man Dwayne Beaumont is being remembered as someone with so much "more life to give" in the wake of his death in a Darwin workplace incident.


Mr Beaumont, 28, worked for Batchelor-based aerial application services company Aerotech, which builds water-bomber aircraft.

It is understood Mr Beaumont was hiring an excavator at a heavy equipment rental yard in Berrimah on Monday afternoon when he was fatally injured.

Family and friends have begun posting their tributes to the much-loved member of the Top End community onto social media.

"My heart aches for this young man, so much more life to live … Sending all my love back home," posted one family member.

Others commented that the incident was "so sad" and "such a tragic day".

An employee from Aerotech on Monday confirmed the death but would not comment.

On Aerotech's website, a profile of Mr Beaumont said: "Dwayne manages the ground operations for Aerotech NT and is a Katherine local."

"He has worked for Aerotech NT since 2009 after mustering cattle at Mountain Valley Station north-east of Katherine near Daly Waters and Maryfield Station south of Katherine," the website read.

"Dwayne has in-depth local knowledge, good agricultural skills and knows the local area well."

The exact circumstances surrounding Mr Beaumont's death remain under investigation by NT WorkSafe and NT Police.
NT Government to introduce new industrial laws

In the wake of Mr Beaumont's death, the NT Government has announced it would push to introduce new industrial manslaughter laws into Parliament, with the hope of passing them before the end of 2019.   

Mr Beaumont's worksite death came after a number of fatalities and serious injuries on job sites in the NT in recent years.

In February, a man was critically injured when a 1.5-tonne electrical switchboard fell on him at Palmerston police station.

One month later, a man was killed in the outback town of Tennant Creek in an electrical accident at the Tennant Creek Fire Station.   

The litany of incidents prompted a Worksafe review and Unions NT boss Joel Bowden has previously said that the Territory has the worst work safety record in the country.

Laugh till you cry wrote on Apr 30^th, 2019 at 4:09pm:


Well you've just summed up the Quantity over Quality 'workers' right there. So hopeless that even with so much 'safety' regulations - they still manage to die in numbers. 
We don't need immigration - we don't need a dumbing down  of Australian workmanship.
Specialists, Skilled, Academic and Achieved need only apply to come live here. Don't need no Boat People who can't even build decent boats to get them here.

Living in Australia is a privilege, not a right.

During the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge from 1923 – 1932 amazingly (and sadly) only 16 men died from bridge related work, of those 16, only 2 fell to their deaths from the bridge

you guys are idiots......

way way more workers killed commuting to work then whilst at work.

'employers need a big pat on the back for providing this safe place(aka the workplace) for workers.

DonDeeHippy wrote on May 1^st, 2019 at 6:30am:



man, have you been to dubai?
richer country then us.
phillipinos and bangladeshis, working on high rise, 45 degree heat, no OH and S, passports held in the bosses safe and you dont get em back til you finish the work.
crazy low wages, sleeping 12 to a room.

and aussie workers in the CFMEU on 100 grand a year for being a "tradesmans assistant" and "passing the spanner " to the "tradesman" and these blokes want to whine and complain.

its a joke to me 

If you work for someone and cant afford to loose your job, then you do what the boss says even if it's not safe..... that's the way it is. Now with the new safety laws if you are injured the boss can goto jail it's all changed.
Yes safety is your responsibly, so is paying the mortgage and feeding your family. Now if the Boss gives you the tools and the backing to work safe and you decide that its to hard or not the way you always have done it, then yes it's your fault and have to take it on the chin if things go bad.

https://www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/statistics-and-research/statistics/fataliti...

https://www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/collection/work-related-traumatic-injury-fa...
Two previous studies on work-related traumatic fatalities in Australia have been undertaken. The first covered the three-year period 1982–19841 and the second covered a four-year period from 1989–19922. Both were based on coronial records. The first study recorded deaths of 581, 491 and 470 for the calendar years 1982 to 1984 respectively. The second study recorded deaths of 673, 590, 528 and 507 for the calendar years 1989 to 1992 respectively

332 persons who died in Australia during 2003–04

In 2018, the preliminary data show there were 157 Australian workers killed at work, compared with 190 workers in 2017.

as you can see since 1982 (581) to 2018 (157)  the deaths from working have dropped dramatically,
considering there was 15 million people in Australia in 1982 and 25 million now that makes the drop even more impressive, sorry to say Cods but that was only possible through legislation and making employers responsible for their work force.