Contractor fined for violation of safety legislation

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     Dong-Ah Geological Engineering Company Ltd was fined $32,000 at West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts today (March 11) for violation of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance. The prosecutions were launched by the Labour Department.

     The case involved a fatal accident that occurred on June 30, 2020, at a reclamation site of the Hong Kong International Airport three-runway system project. While a gang of workers was engaged in repairing a winch drum of a machine on the site, a wire rope of the winch drum suddenly flipped and struck two of the workers. One worker sustained serious head injury and died later while the other sustained bone fracture.

Ends/Thursday, March 11, 2021
Issued at HKT 18:38

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