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Contractors fined for violation of safety legislation
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     ​Hung Kee Water Electrical & Air-conditioner Engineering Limited and Safety First Engineering Limited were each fined $305,000 at West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts today (August 7) for violations 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 July 20, 2024, in a unit of an industrial building in Tsuen Wan. A scaffolder, while he was erecting a truss-out bamboo scaffold at the external wall on the 15th floor to facilitate the subsequent air-conditioning unit installation work, fell to the ground and died.
 
Ends/Thursday, August 7, 2025
Issued at HKT 18:34
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