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Contractor fined for violation of safety rules
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     A contractor was fined $105,000 at Fanling Magistrates' Courts today (October 28) for violation of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance and the Construction Sites (Safety) Regulations. The prosecutions were launched by the Labour Department.

     The case involved a fatal accident that occurred on February 7 this year in Lok Ma Chau, in which a worker was suspected to have plunged about 3 metres to his death through a void in a cockloft to the ground while he was engaged in floor laying work.

Ends/Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Issued at HKT 11:59

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