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Oct 20, 2009
Contractor fined $50,000 <!--10 min-->
<!-- headline one : start --> <!-- headline one : end --> <!-- Author --> <!-- show image if available --> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr></tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold">By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent </td></tr> </tbody></table>
AN ELECTRICAL contractor was fined a total of $50,000 on Tuesday for failing to ensure the safety and health of employees and modifying a scene of accident. Ng Choon Seng, 55, owner of New Sun Electrical Contractor, admitted to the two offences earlier. On July 20 last year, on seeing that a worker, who had fallen to his death from the roof of a house, was not belted, Ng fastened a safety belt onto him. Ng had employed the Indian national, Mr Pichaimuthu Dhanikodi, 38, illegally to install a lightning conductor on the main roof of a three-storey house being built when he fell. The worker was holding a work permit to work as an electrician for another company at the time. Ng could have been fined up to $200,000 and/or jailed for up to two years under the Workplace Safety and Health Act. For modifying the accident, he could have been fined up to $10,000 and/or jailed for up to 12 months.
Oct 20, 2009
Contractor fined $50,000 <!--10 min-->
<!-- headline one : start --> <!-- headline one : end --> <!-- Author --> <!-- show image if available --> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr></tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold">By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent </td></tr> </tbody></table>
AN ELECTRICAL contractor was fined a total of $50,000 on Tuesday for failing to ensure the safety and health of employees and modifying a scene of accident. Ng Choon Seng, 55, owner of New Sun Electrical Contractor, admitted to the two offences earlier. On July 20 last year, on seeing that a worker, who had fallen to his death from the roof of a house, was not belted, Ng fastened a safety belt onto him. Ng had employed the Indian national, Mr Pichaimuthu Dhanikodi, 38, illegally to install a lightning conductor on the main roof of a three-storey house being built when he fell. The worker was holding a work permit to work as an electrician for another company at the time. Ng could have been fined up to $200,000 and/or jailed for up to two years under the Workplace Safety and Health Act. For modifying the accident, he could have been fined up to $10,000 and/or jailed for up to 12 months.
