Employer fined for violation of safety rules
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     Sam Hing Logistics Limited was fined $20,000 at Tsuen Wan Magistrates' Courts today (December 27) for violation of the Occupational Safety and Health Ordinance. The prosecution was launched by the Labour Department.

     The case involved a fatal accident that occurred at a logistics centre in Chek Lap Kok on December 28 last year, in which a truck driver was trapped to death between the tailgate and the body chassis of a truck while checking the loads inside.

Ends/Friday, December 27, 2013
Issued at HKT 15:03

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