Contractor fined for violation of safety legislation
Paul Y. Construction Company, Limited was fined $140,000 at the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts today (October 29) for violating the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance and the Construction Sites (Safety) Regulations. The prosecutions were launched by the Labour Department. The case involved a fatal accident that occurred on January 31, 2023, on a construction site at the Hong Kong Boundary Crossing Facilities Island of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge. While a worker was giving signals on a metal platform of a metal formwork to a tower crane operator for carrying out lifting work, the platform suddenly collapsed. The worker fell together with the collapsed platform to the ground and sustained serious injuries. He passed away two days later.
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