SINGAPORE: The director of a building demolition company was jailed for five days on Friday for trying to get his worker to lie about his presence at a worksite where another worker was electrocuted to death.
The court heard that Tan was the director of Beng Heng Engineering. On Jul 15, 2019, Tan and his employees were at a construction site at 16 Amber Road performing demolition works. He went to obtain a power cable, which was connected to a socket-outlet assembly, and was observed inserting a screwdriver into the industrial plug of the extension cable.
Tan has a previous conviction in 2009 for causing death by a negligent or rash act, which has since been rendered spent, she said.Mr Balamurugan said his client had been the director of his company since 1996. Tan works with his foreign workers at construction sites and this was his first work-related death in the company.
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