Contractor fined for violation of safety legislation
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We Strong Engineering Company Limited was fined $20,000 at Kowloon City Magistrates' Courts today (June 12) for violation of the Construction Sites (Safety) Regulations. The prosecution was launched by the Labour Department.
The case involved a fatal accident that occurred on July 15 last year in Cheung Sha Wan, in which a worker received an electric shock while undertaking cable connection work inside a pump room and subsequently passed away.
Ends/Friday, June 12, 2015
Issued at HKT 19:13
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