Contractors fined for violation of safety legislation

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     Able Engineering Company Limited, Moreton Engineering & Equipment Company Limited and WS Engineering HK Company Limited were fined $220,000, $60,000 and $30,000 respectively at Kowloon City Magistrates' Courts today (January 22) for violation of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance. The prosecutions were launched by the Labour Department.

     The case involved a fatal accident that occurred on August 20, 2018, at a building construction site in Sham Shui Po. While a worker was assisting in loading the components of a dismantled tower crane onto the deck of a lorry, he fell from the lorry to the ground. He sustained a serious head injury and passed away a few weeks later.

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