Employer fined for violation of safety rule
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Bak Ling Enterprises Limited was fined $80,000 at Eastern Magistrates' Courts today (August 23) for violation of the Occupational Safety and Health Ordinance. The prosecution was launched by the Labour Department.
The case involved a fatal accident that occurred on January 29 this year in Central, in which a worker fell to his death from the top of a lift machine room onto the roof of a building while reinforcing a TV antenna.
Ends/Friday, August 23, 2013
Issued at HKT 16:46
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