Highways Department highly concerned about accident happened at Central Kowloon Route works site
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At around 1.30pm today, an accident happened while the contractor was lifting rebars using a crane lorry at the works site located at the junction of Kansu Street and Ferry Street. Four workers transporting rebars were hit by the rebars and got injured. They were later sent to Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Kwong Wah Hospital respectively for medical treatment.
The Highways Department attaches great importance to industrial safety of the works sites and has all along been requesting contractors to strictly implement safety management and different safety measures to ensure the works progress in a safe manner. After the incident, the area concerned has been fenced off and the relevant works procedure has also been suspended. The department has urged the related personnel of the project to fully review the site safety and implement improvement measures in order to uplift site safety and avoid the re-occurrence of similar accidents.
The main contractor of the project concerned is Build King - SK ecoplant Joint Venture and the subcontractor employing the injured workers is Time Concept Construction Ltd. The project mainly includes the construction of cut-and-cover tunnels at Yau Ma Tei, reprovisioning of Gascoigne Road Flyover and construction/reprovisioning of other related facilities. The construction works commenced in January 2018 and are anticipated to be completed by end-2025 as planned.
Ends/Saturday, November 11, 2023
Issued at HKT 23:04
Issued at HKT 23:04
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