SYDNEY, April 21 (Xinhua) -- Two men have died following separate incidents at worksites in the eastern Australian states of Queensland and New South Wales (NSW) on Monday.
Resources, Safety and Health Queensland (RSHQ), the state's regulator of worker safety in heavy industries, said on Tuesday that a worker died after a forklift incident at a quarry on Monday.
Emergency services were initially called to reports that a man had been critically injured at the quarry located 20 km southeast of central Brisbane at around 2:20 p.m. on Monday.
A spokesperson for RSHQ said on Tuesday that inquiries into the incident are underway.
Earlier on Monday, the NSW police force said that emergency services responded to reports of a workplace incident at around 11:30 a.m. in northwest Sydney.
Police officers were told at the scene that a 49-year-old man was delivering glass panes when a number of sheets collapsed onto him.
He was treated by ambulance paramedics, but died at the scene.
Police established a crime scene and notified workplace health and safety regulators. ■
