Chun Wah Bamboo Scaffolding Limited and its director were fined $115,000 and $80,000 respectively at the Kowloon City Magistrates' Courts today (September 25) for violation of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance and the Construction Sites (Safety) Regulations. The prosecutions were launched by the Labour Department.
      
     The case involved a fatal accident that occurred on December 13, 2022, at a construction site in Ho Man Tin. A scaffolder, while erecting a scaffold at the external wall of a building under renovation, plunged from the scaffold to the ground and died.
 

Ends/Monday, September 25, 2023
Issued at HKT 18:45

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