Contractors fined for violation of safety legislations
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     Kin Lee Decoration Co and Siu On Scaffold Company Limited were each fined $40,000 at Eastern Magistrates' Courts today (May 13) 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 October 10, 2013 in Ap Lei Chau. A scaffolder fell to his death from high level to G/F level at a residential building while he was erecting a truss-out bamboo scaffold on the external wall.

Ends/Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Issued at HKT 18:53

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