Contractors fined for violation of safety rules
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     Two contractors were each fined $120,000 at Fanling Magistrates' Courts today (October 21) for violation of the Construction Sites (Safety) Regulations. The prosecutions were launched by the Labour Department.

     The case involved a fatal accident that occurred on March 18 this year in Tin Shui Wai, in which a scaffolder fell to his death from 25/F to G/F of a residential building while he was dismantling a truss-out bamboo scaffold at the external wall.

Ends/Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Issued at HKT 16:59

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