WorkCover and Workplace Injury Lawyer in Nambour

About Our Nambour Office

Viktoria Teed meets clients by appointment at Level 1, 80 Currie Street, Nambour QLD 4560. It is a serviced office, not a shopfront, so please phone 1300 390 394 to book a time first. Nambour railway station, on Queensland Rail's Sunshine Coast line, sits between Price Street and Civic Way, with a car park on the Price Street side and the Nambour bus station and a taxi bay on the Civic Way side.

If getting into town is too hard after an injury, we can talk by phone or video call, or arrange to see you at home or in hospital, whether you live in Nambour, Woombye, Palmwoods, Yandina or up on the Blackall Range.

Local Industries & Workplace Risks

At the 2021 Census, the largest industries of employment for working residents of the Nambour–Burnside and District area were health care and social assistance (19.5 per cent), construction (11.4 per cent) and retail trade (10.5 per cent). A larger share of these residents work in manufacturing (6.3 per cent) than across the Sunshine Coast as a whole (4.6 per cent).

• Health care: Nambour General Hospital on Hospital Road is part of the Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service. Its new emergency department opened in June 2024.
• Manufacturing and food processing: including ginger processing at The Ginger Factory in nearby Yandina.
• Farming: sugar was Nambour's primary industry until the Moreton Central Sugar Mill closed in December 2003, after more than 100 years of crushing cane.
• Education and hospitality: education and training (8.5 per cent) and accommodation and food services (7.2 per cent) also employ many residents.

Common Workplace Injuries in Nambour

Claims here usually reflect the physical demands of local work:

• Lifting and repositioning patients can cause back and shoulder injuries, and health workers can develop a psychological injury after traumatic events, bullying or harassment.
• Falls from ladders, roofs and scaffolding on building sites can cause fractures and head and brain injuries. Our construction injury guide explains these claims.
• Packing and production-line work can lead to repetitive strain injuries in the hands, wrists and elbows.
• Slips on wet kitchen floors and falls on uneven farm ground often cause knee injuries. A fall in a shop or public place, rather than at work, is covered in our slip and fall guide.
• A crash while driving for work can cause neck and whiplash injuries. As well as a WorkCover claim, a CTP claim may be possible if another driver was at fault.

Local Medical & Legal Resources

Hospitals: Nambour General Hospital, Hospital Road, Nambour, and Sunshine Coast University Hospital, 6 Doherty Street, Birtinya. Both emergency departments are open 24 hours. In an emergency, call 000.

Local court: Nambour Magistrates Court, 156–168 Currie Street, Nambour, on the corner of Currie and Mitchell Streets.

• WorkCover Queensland insures most Queensland employers. Some larger employers are self-insured instead.
• Workers' Compensation Regulator reviews insurers' decisions. A review decision can be appealed to the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission or, for some types of decision, an Industrial Magistrate.
• Workplace Health and Safety Queensland enforces work health and safety laws and investigates serious workplace incidents.