No foul play suspected by police in 2024 Lentor construction site accident that killed two
The Ministry of Manpower is also not looking to take action on anyone else involved.
A pair of construction workers, Heryanto Tan and Hossain Salim, lost their lives when an 11-tonne winch drum fell on them at a Lentor construction site on September 17, 2024. The Singapore Police Force and Ministry of Manpower have concluded that foul play is not suspected in the incident. Both men were part of a team assembling sheave blocks onto a winch drum.
The winch drum, weighing over 11 tonnes and measuring more than 2.2 metres wide, was lifted by a mobile crane and positioned on two concrete blocks. Tan, a site engineer, instructed the mobile crane operator to maintain tension in the chain slings attached to the winch drum. The pair worked on the assembly until 11:40 am, taking a lunch break.
Upon resuming work at 1 pm, Tan noticed a gap forming between the sheave block and the lower frame of the winch drum. He instructed a worker to release a mechanical jack, which caused the winch drum to become unstable, slip off the concrete blocks, and topple onto Tan and Salim. Two other workers suffered minor injuries, while Salim was pronounced dead at the scene and Tan was conveyed to a hospital but also died later.
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