Contractor fined for violation of safety rules
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     Hing Tai Scaffolding Engineering Limited was fined $25,000 at the Eastern Magistrates' Court today (January 20) for violation of the Construction Sites (Safety) Regulations.  The prosecution was launched by the Labour Department.

     The case involved a fatal accident that occurred in Quarry Bay on June 25 last year, in which a scaffolder fell to his death from the 11/F to the 1/F while erecting a truss-out scaffold on the external wall of a residential building.

Ends/Friday, January 20, 2012
Issued at HKT 15:28

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