North Point building's owners fined for worker's death
An owners’ corporation in North Point was fined HK$149,000 at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts on Monday for violating safety regulations over the deadly fall of a worker who had been pruning a tree. The man, who was working at Kingsfield Garden in July last year, fell about 1.2 metres from the top of a parapet wall at the car park. He was sent to hospital with a head injury in a conscious state,…
The owners' corporation of a residential building in North Point, Kingsfield Garden, has been fined HK$149,000 for violating safety regulations. A worker pruning a tree at the building's car park fell about 1.2 metres from the top of a parapet wall in July last year.
The worker was sent to hospital with a head injury and was conscious at the time. However, he passed away two weeks later. According to the court, the incorporated owners of the building had violated the Occupational Safety and Health Ordinance.
The fine was imposed at the Eastern Magistrates' Courts after a prosecution was launched by the Labour Department.
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