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Written by: Deng Haixing and Zhang Jiahao
2021-01-22 02:34
The last update date: 2021-01-22 03:01
A fatal industrial accident occurred in Tuen Mun.
At about 0:17 am on Friday (22nd), the police received a report from an employee in the underground garbage room of Jingle Building, Shanshan Village, stating that a male worker had been found unconscious in one of the garbage bins.
The ambulancemen rushed to the report and immediately rushed the victim to Tuen Mun Hospital. However, he was dying and died after arriving at the hospital.
According to sources, the deceased was about 60 years old. He originally left work at 11 o'clock last night, but his colleagues did not see him for a long time. He went around looking for him and finally found him in the trash can in the garbage room on the ground.
After initial investigation, the police suspected that the male worker fell from the garbage chute on the 35th floor to the garbage room on the ground while working. The case is now classified as an "industrial accident" and the cause of the tragedy is being investigated.
The victim was sent to the hospital by ambulance but died in the end.
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Similar tragedies have occurred in Hong Kong in the past.
Among them, Luo Yuqiang, a 71-year-old male cleaning worker who was in the "Winter Solstice" and "Ding Geng" on December 22, 2017, was inserted into the garbage chute with a suspected weightlessness while he was working at Jin Bang House, Kam Tai Court, Ma On Shan. Between the 30th and 29th floors, he was rescued and sent to the hospital after being trapped for 2 hours.
On August 27, 2010, a male cleaning worker in Dayuan Village, Tai Po, who was cleaning a blocked garbage chute in the morning, fell into the chute and fell into the trash bin on the ground. He was severely injured and was transported because he was not found in time. It was squeezed at the Shatin Refuse Transfer Station and then transferred to the Ta Kwu Ling Landfill for disposal. At noon on the same day, the worker was found missing. After investigation, the body was found at the landfill the next day.
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