Company fined $160k over fatal workplace accident near MRT depot

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Crime,WORKPLACE SAFETY AND HEALTH

A construction company has been fined $160,000 over a workplace accident that killed one worker near the Changi MRT depot in December 2020. Lum Chang Building Contractors failed to take the necessary measures to ensure the safety of employees from BLT Geoworks, which it had...

On Dec 15, 2020, a Bangladeshi worker died of multiple injuries after part of a sheet pile struck him at an LTA construction site beside the Changi MRT depot.A construction company has been fined $160,000 over a workplace accident that killed one worker near the Changi MRT depot in December 2020.

In December 2020, LTA said: “During the extraction of sheet piles, the welding joint holding two sheet piles together broke, causing part of the sheet pile to fall on a worker. The worker was pronounced dead at the scene.”Jail for man who posed as forex trader, cheated 13 people of $4.6m Mr Shajahan was a member of the extraction team. Among other things, he was tasked to monitor the extraction process, ensuring that sheet piles were steady and upright while they were being extracted.

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