Contractor fined for violation of safety rules
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Arts Decoration & Engineering Co was fined $23,700 at Shatin Magistrates' Courts today (March 15) for violation of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Electricity) Regulations and the Construction Sites (Safety) Regulations. The prosecutions were launched by the Labour Department.
The case involved a fatal accident that occurred in Shatin on June 28 last year, in which a worker, while working on a stepladder to conduct electrical installation work for a split-type air-conditioner at the false ceiling, received an electric shock and fell to the floor. He subsequently passed away.
Ends/Friday, March 15, 2013
Issued at HKT 16:24
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