Contractor fined for violation of safety rules
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Chan's (E & M) Engineering Company Limited was fined $160,000 at Kowloon City Magistrates' Courts today (January 15) for violation of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance, the Construction Sites (Safety) Regulations and the Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Electricity) Regulations. The prosecutions were launched by the Labour Department.
The case involved a fatal accident that occurred at a construction site in Hung Hom on October 8, 2012, in which a worker was electrocuted while repairing the emergency lighting system of a lecture hall.
Ends/Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Issued at HKT 18:25
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