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Hong Kong | Proprietor fined for violation of safety legislation

Rebecca May

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Government of Hong Kong | Click-Out Cargo Logistics Company Limited has been fined $162,000 at the Fanling Magistrates’ Courts for violating the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance and the Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Lifting Appliances and Lifting Gear) Regulations.

The prosecutions were launched by the Labour Department.

The case involved a fatal accident that occurred on 6 May 2024, in an open yard in Yuen Long. A bundle of metal boards became loosened and fell while being lifted by a truck-mounted crane, striking a worker who was working on the ground to assist the lifting operation. The worker passed away in hospital on the same day.

– Accurate at time of publication | June 2025

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