Hip Hing Engineering Company Limited and Tai Wah Aluminium Engineering Company Limited were fined $60,000 and $140,000 respectively at Fanling Magistrates' Courts today (November 30) for violation of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance, the Construction Sites (Safety) Regulations and the Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Safety Management) Regulation. The prosecutions were launched by the Labour Department.
      
     The case involved a fatal accident that occurred on February 23, 2021, at a building construction site at Queen's Hill, Fanling. A worker was suspected to have fallen from height onto the first floor canopy of a building under construction while installing glass panes of aluminium windows in an upper floor unit of the building. The worker died in the accident.

Ends/Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Issued at HKT 17:05

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