Employer fined for violation of safety legislation

     Hing Fat Nursery was fined $40,000 at Eastern Magistrates' Courts today (July 17) 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 on December 20, 2019, at a residential estate in Sai Ying Pun. A female worker, while carrying out plant pruning work on a concrete planter, fell a distance of about 3 metres to the ground and died.