Contractor and worker fined for violation of safety legislation
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A contractor and a worker were fined $96,000 and $20,000 respectively at Kowloon City Magistrates' Courts today (October 23) for violation of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance, the Construction Sites (Safety) Regulations and the Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Lifting Appliances and Lifting Gear) Regulations. The prosecutions were launched by the Labour Department.
The case involved a fatal accident that occurred on December 25 last year in Mong Kok. A scaffolder fell to his death from the 2/F level onto the ground while he was erecting a truss-out bamboo scaffold at the external wall of a building.
Ends/Thursday, October 23, 2014
Issued at HKT 16:08
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