3 firms fined over HK$900,000 each for role in apprentice electrician’s death

A main contractor and two subcontractors have been fined more than HK$900,000 each for their role in the death of a 38-year-old worker who was electrocuted while handling wiring for solar panels during wet weather at the Hong Kong Science Park three years ago.
Magistrate Jeffrey Sze Cho-yiu said China Power International Development, the main contractor for solar panel installation works at the park, had not conducted any on-site supervision “in the slightest”.
The project involved three...