Contractor fined for violation of safety rules
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On Shun (Hong Kong) Construction Limited was fined $87,500 at the Shatin Magistrates' Court today (February 10) for violation of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance and the Construction Sites (Safety) Regulations. The prosecution was launched by the Labour Department.
The case involved a fatal accident that occurred in Sha Tin on July 16 last year, in which a scaffolder fell to his death from 8/F to G/F while erecting a truss-out scaffold at the external wall of a residential building.
Ends/Friday, February 10, 2012
Issued at HKT 18:34
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