A 29-year-old woman has died while unloading a car from a truck in a towing yard in the Perth suburb of Osborne Park this morning.
Emergency services were alerted to an incident at Auto Tow Services, near the corner of Sundercombe Street and Collingwood Street in the city’s north, about 5:40am.
The woman received emergency first aid but died at the scene, with police describing the death as a “workplace incident”.
WorkSafe WA confirmed the woman was a tow truck driver at the yard, and that it had launched an investigation.
“The woman was reported to have been unloading a car from a tow truck tilt tray when the fatal incident occurred,” it said in a statement.
“WorkSafe investigators thoroughly examine the circumstances of incidents with a view to ensuring compliance and preventing future incidents of a similar nature.”
The woman was killed in a towing yard run by Auto Tow Services. (ABC News: Lauren Smith)
Auto Tow Services described the death as a “tragic loss” for the team.
“She was much loved here, and our thoughts and prayers are with her family and loved ones,” they said.
The Transport Workers Union’s WA branch said it was also investigating the incident.
Police were called to a towing yard in Osborne Park where a woman died on Tuesday morning. (ABC News: Lauren Smith)
WA’s Shadow Industrial Relations Minister Steve Thomas said his sympathies were with the woman’s family.
“People should be able to go to work and come home safely, and it is an absolute tragedy when that doesn’t happen,” he said.