{"id":125051,"date":"2025-09-07T07:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T07:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/125051\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T07:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T07:51:08","slug":"freight-handler-dies-after-accident-at-sydney-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/125051\/","title":{"rendered":"Freight handler dies after accident at Sydney Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has died at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/sydney-airport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Sydney Airport\">Sydney Airport<\/a> after an accident at the freight terminal.Emergency services were called to the airport in south <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/sydney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Sydney\">Sydney<\/a> at around 10:30am this morning after a freight handler was reportedly struck by a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics treated the man, who is believed to be in his 40s, but he died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/0446aa54-c2f3-494c-94b4-095dd9a67481.jpeg\"   alt=\"The traffic control tower at Sydneys airport. Generic REX, Qantas, Virgin, Jetstar , airport, planes, passengers, commuters, airlines, travel, economy, transport, delays, luggage, customers. Sydney, NSW. August 7, 2024. Photo: Kate Geraghty\"\/>The man was reportedly struck by another vehicle. (Kate Geraghty)<\/p>\n<p>The incident is not being treated as suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>Sydney Airport said they were saddened by the incident confirmed they were offering support to airlines and authorities.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff&#8221;Everyone at Sydney Airport is deeply saddened by the fatal incident involving an airfreight worker earlier this morning,&#8221; they told 9News.com.au.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our thoughts are with the worker&#8217;s family, friends and colleagues during this incredibly difficult time. Sydney Airport has made its support services available to all staff across the airport precinct.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are working to support the airline and relevant authorities as they investigate the incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Worksafe NSW has been notified and a report is being prepared for the coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died at Sydney Airport after an accident at the freight terminal.Emergency services were called to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-125051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}