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Hong Kong | Proprietor fined for violation of safety legislation

Barbour EHS

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Yau Sang Galvanizing (Hot-Dip) Company Limited has been fined HK$195,000 at the Fanling Magistrates’ Courts for violations of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance and related lifting gear regulations.

The Labour Department prosecuted after a fatal accident on 28 December 2023. A crane collision in a Yuen Long factory caused a metal block to strike a welding worker, who died 22 days later.

– Accurate at time of publication | December 2024

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