Construction worker who fell from roof is 6th workplace fatality of 2023
SINGAPORE – A construction worker died after he fell from a height of about 4m while doing waterproofing work on a roof, making him the sixth workplace fatality in 2023.
The ministry said it found lapses in the safety practices of Guan Teck Construction 2000, the worker’s employer and occupier of the site where he died. Another construction company was fined $200,000 under the Workplace Safety and Health Act on Feb 24, MOM said in a separate statement. Both had to manoeuvre a mobile tower scaffold inside the drain, including across areas where the floor was uneven.The two workers decided to push the scaffold on their own, and risked the scaffold toppling towards them, MOM said.Period of heightened safety extended by 3 months amid ‘concerning’ rise in workplace deaths: MOM
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