Fatal Fall From 1.45m: A worker involved in shop upgrade works at Southland Shopping Centre was standing about 1.45m up a ladder when he lost his balance, fell against a wall, hit his head and slid to the ground. He died in hospital 3 days later. The shopfitting company was fined $100,000. Unguarded Penetration in Construction Site: A worker fell 3m through penetration in condeck at Lorne Chalet Project. The worker was clearing material off the deck ready for steel fixers. As the worker lifted a loose sheet of plywood (covering the hole) he walked forward and fell through the hole. Fall Through Skylight: A building engineer fell through a skylight on the Performing Arts Centre in Colac. The experienced building engineer fell 2.5m through a skylight on the roof while servicing an air conditioning unit. The man had previously carried out work on the roof and knew of the existence of the skylight. Fall From Mezzanine: A 25-year-old maintenance technician fell from a mezzanine floor at a city hotel and sustained a ruptured spinal disc and another was partially ruptured after falling from a height of 2.5 metres when alighting from a mezzanine roof onto a 1.8 metre wooden step ladder. Man Impaled after Fall: A building renderer fell 4m and landed on a scaffolding stillage, which pierced his torso. Emergency services workers cut the man free and he was transported to hospital with a 40 cm length of 40 mm diameter pipe protruding from his body. Fall Through Suspended Ceiling: A storeman working at a hi-fi retailer fell through a suspended ceiling onto a concrete floor while storing empty boxes above the ceiling. Fatal Fall From Balcony: A 64-year-old man died after falling more than four metres from a second storey balcony on a house under construction in  Wonga Park, in Melbourne's east. Fatal Fall From Roof: A 67-year-old man died after falling from a roof onto a concrete slab floor at a site in Caulfield North. The man was employed by a building company and was carrying out renovations. Fall From Ladder: A self-employed tradesman, working alone, fell from a ladder at a site in Kew. Fall Through Ceiling Panels: A 59-year-old man fell approximately three metres through the roof of a cool room and landed on a concrete floor while removing old cool room panels in North Melbourne. Fall Through Ceiling Panels: Two men working on a construction site in Wangarrata got out of a scissor lift onto insulated roof panels which gave way. The men fell 4m onto a concrete floor and suffered serious injuries including fracures to arms, legs and the head. Fall From Roof: A 48 year old man suffered head injuries when he fell about 8 metres through unsupported asbestos cement sheeting onto a concrete floor. At the time of the accident, he was employed by a company who were engaged in removing the asbestos cement sheeting. The roof area of this building was very fragile. Access to the work area was provided by means of unsecured ladders and no perimeter protection such as scaffolding or handrails had been erected. There was no safety mesh beneath the roof and the injured worker was not wearing any personal safety equipment. Fall arrest equipment was stored in a work vehicle on the site for the use of any employee who required it. Had management ensured that their workers used the equipment, this man may have escaped serious injury.		Fatal Fall From Roof: A man died when he fell 28 metres from the roof of a building onto concrete paving. The man, a labourer, was working as part of a four man team on replacing a roof. At the time of the accident the deceased and his co-workers were finishing off their day' work. The workers were securing a stack of unused roof decking onto the existing upper pitched roof. It was while carrying out this task that the man fell to his death. Fall arrest equipment was being worn by all four workers and all but the deceased were connected to an appropriate anchorage. Some time prior to his fall he had disconnected his lanyard from the lifeline rope chuck. Fatal Fall From Roof: A 59 year old man died after falling while dismantling the roof of a building in high wind. The man was working with two others who were inexperienced with work of this nature although he had limited experience. On the morning of the accident 10 roof sheets, 15 metres long, had been unscrewed in preparation for stacking. Wind gusts began lifting the sheets and attempts were made to secure them by rescrewing and tying them. Two more workers were called up to the roof to assist. In the ensuing minutes all were in peril of, being struck by flying roofing whilst sitting or laying on sheets to hold them down. One of the workers fell through a gap between sheets and was saved only by grabbing a sprinkler pipe fixed under the roof. He was pulled back onto the roof by two others who grabbed his feet. The deceased was then noticed missing from the top end of the sheet where he had been last seen. He had fallen 15 metres to a concrete floor. The deceased and the two other roof workers were wearing harnesses, but inertia reels were not connected. The reels were in a bucket on the roof. None of the workers had used reels before nor had knowledge of their fitting. Clearly they were inadequately trained and supervised. Fatal Fall Through Roof Skylight: A 28 year old man died of head injuries when he fell through the roof of a packing shed while trying to repair a loose sheet of iron. The young man, although employed as forklift driver and shed hand, was often sent onto the saw tooth roof to carry out minor repairs for his employer. Tradesmen were only called in when major repairs were needed.On this occasion the man fell five and a half metres through a fibreglass skylight onto the concrete floor below. No safe access to the roof was provided, there were no signs warning that the roof had fragile sections and there was no safety mesh beneath the skylight. Fatal Fall Through Roof: A 32 year old man who was employed by a rigging contractor on a construction site, died from injuries he sustained when he fell through a section of roof. In the course of his work it was necessary for the man to climb a fixed vertical steel ladder to a platform 8 metres above the ground. From this level a window was used to gain access to the first roof level. A steel storm water pipe was then used to gain access to the upper roof level, where a swing stage was situated. Apparently the young man was using the steel water pipe to ascend from the upper level when he either slipped, or lost his balance. He then fell backwards and head first through the lower level corrugated cement sheet roof. No safety mesh was in place below the fragile roof and the deceased was not wearing a safety harness. Fatal Fall Through Roof: A 20 year old apprentice fell three metres while removing corrugated roof sheets from a house in North Carlton. He died in hospital from injuries. Fall While Removing Roof Sheets: A 40-year-old male fell approximately seven metres through a roof while removing asbestos corrugated roof sheets at Dandenong.