Contractor fined for violation of safety rules
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Shadow Life Design Company was fined $33,000 at the Shatin Magistrates' Court today (April 27) for violation of the Construction Sites (Safety) Regulations. The prosecution was launched by the Labour Department.
The case involved a fatal accident that occurred in Sha Tin on July 16 last year, in which a scaffolder fell to his death from the eighth floor to the ground floor while erecting a truss-out scaffold at the external wall of a residential building.
Ends/Friday, April 27, 2012
Issued at HKT 16:27
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