More than four years after a Bangladeshi worker was paralysed from the neck down following a fall from a height of 3.7m at work, he has been awarded $971,000 in damages from the subsidiary management corporation, or MCST, of Westgate Tower. Read more at stomp.straitstimes.com
, he has been awarded $971,000 in damages from the subsidiary management corporation, or MCST, of Westgate Tower.
Part of the agreed compensation will go towards paying $149,281.20 to the National University Hospital and $58,081.09 to Alexandra Hospital, as stated in a court judgment dated Feb 10. He was holding his phone in one hand and using the other hand to zoom in for a close-up photo of the flow switch before he fell.
over its joint 70 per cent liability with subcontractor STA Rita Engineering Services for the negligence that caused the accident.
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