{"id":159709,"date":"2025-09-21T22:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T22:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/159709\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T22:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T22:26:07","slug":"worker-dies-after-being-struck-by-forklift-in-sydneys-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/159709\/","title":{"rendered":"Worker dies after being struck by forklift in Sydney&#8217;s east"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A man has been killed by a forklift at a worksite in Sydney&#8217;s east.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Emergency services were called to a warehouse on Military Road in Matraville just after 5.30am on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police were told a 57-year-old was struck by a forklift and suffered serious injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">NSW Ambulance said six emergency crews travelled to the scene, including an ambulance helicopter and the intensive care paramedic unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">They found the man with critical injuries to his chest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Despite the best efforts of paramedics the man died at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A crime scene has been established and an investigation is underway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Safework NSW has been notified of the death, NSW Police confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A report will be prepared for the coroner.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been killed by a forklift at a worksite in Sydney&#8217;s east.\u00a0 Emergency services were called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,106075,106078,36921,106077,44,2733,4277,670,106074,106076],"class_list":["post-159709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-eastern-sydney","tag-forklift-death","tag-matraville","tag-matraville-warehouse","tag-news","tag-nsw","tag-nsw-police","tag-sydney","tag-workplace-death","tag-worksafe-nsw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159709","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=159709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}