Employer fined for violation of safety rules
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Lick Sang Rice Limited was fined $30,000 at Fanling Magistrates' Courts today (December 3) 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 at a warehouse in Yuen Long on April 28 this year, in which a worker plunged about 2 metres to his death while working on a pallet raised by a forklift truck.
Ends/Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Issued at HKT 16:54
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