Contractors fined for violation of safety legislation

     Wing Fat Building Construction Limited and a contractor were fined $50,000 and $59,000 respectively at the Eastern Magistrates' Courts today (August 14) for violation of the Construction Sites (Safety) Regulations and the Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Gas Welding and Flame Cutting) Regulation. The prosecutions were launched by the Labour Department.
      
     The case involved a fatal accident that occurred on December 6, 2021, at a demolition site in North Point, Hong Kong. A worker, while dismantling a metal structure on the site, was struck and killed by concrete debris that fell from an adjoining demolition site.