Contractor fined for violation of safety legislation

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Gammon Construction Limited was fined $73,000 at Eastern Magistrates' Courts today (December 20) for violation of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance, the Construction Sites (Safety) Regulations, the Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Electricity) 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 July 22, 2015, at Wan Chai East Preliminary Treatment Works in which two workers received electric shocks while carrying out the disposal and relocation work for an electric water pump inside an underground shaft on the site. One of the workers was certified dead later and the other worker was injured.

Ends/Tuesday, December 20, 2016
Issued at HKT 17:52

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