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Hong Kong | Contractor fined for violating safety legislation

Rebecca May

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A concrete shell of a building being built with scaffolding, ladders and work equipment around it

The Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region | Shui On Building Contractors Limited has been fined $21,000 at the Kwun Tong Magistrates’ Courts for violating the Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Safety Management) Regulation.

The prosecution was launched by the Labour Department, and the case involved a fatal accident that occurred on 21 March 2023 at a construction site on Anderson Road.

It is suspected that a worker, while carrying out debris clearance work at a building under construction, fell from a height onto the canopy on the first floor of the building.

The worker was unconscious and passed away on the same day.

– Accurate at time of publication | July 2025

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