Gearing Company Limited was fined $140,000 at West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts today (January 12) for violation of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance and Construction Sites (Safety) Regulations. The prosecutions were launched by the Labour Department.

     The case involved a fatal accident that occurred on April 15, 2016 on a construction site in Tsuen Wan.  A worker, while carrying out pipe insulation work for an air-conditioning system in a plant room of a commercial building, fell about four metres to the ground and sustained fatal injury.

Ends/Thursday, January 12, 2017
Issued at HKT 20:42

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