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3 people fell and injured in the collapse of the blue tunnel site work platform

2022-08-10T09:50:50.751Z


An industrial accident occurred in Kwun Tong. At about 3 pm today (10th), the police received a report that three workers were injured during work at a site on Cha Kwo Ling Road near Tin Hau Temple. The site is the Tseung Kwan O-Lam Tin Tunnel construction site, according to sources at the time


An industrial accident occurred in Kwun Tong.

At about 3 pm today (10th), the police received a report that three workers were injured during work at a site on Cha Kwo Ling Road near Tin Hau Temple.

The scene is the Tseung Kwan O-Lam Tin Tunnel construction site. It is reported that three workers were working on a work platform about 5 meters high at the time, and the work platform suddenly collapsed, and they fell and were injured.

Fortunately, when the ambulancemen arrived, they found the three injured workers sober and sent them to Queen Elizabeth Hospital for treatment.


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Of the three injured workers, two were locals and one was Nepalese.

The incident happened at about 3:18 this afternoon. According to the initial report by the police, three workers were injured by the iron pressure, and two of them were seriously injured.

Fortunately, it was later confirmed that all three workers were sober.

According to on-site information, the site was undergoing tunnel overpass construction at the time, during which a work platform about 5 meters high suddenly collapsed, and three workers fell from the work platform to cause the accident. The police are investigating the cause of the accident.

According to the project information of the Civil Engineering and Development Department, the Tseung Kwan O-Lam Tin Tunnel is a two-way two-lane road with a length of about 3.8 kilometers, connecting Tseung Kwan O and East Kowloon. The project is managed by the Civil Engineering and Development Department and will start construction in 2016. It will be completed by the end of 2022 at the earliest, involving an approved project budget of about 15.1 billion yuan.

The Tseung Kwan O-Lam Tin Tunnel, together with the T2 Trunk Road and Central Kowloon Route in the Kai Tak Development Area, will form Route 6 in the main road network.

A deadly industrial accident occurred at the Blue Tunnel site in March 2020. A 37-year-old hoisting worker surnamed Lai was knocked unconscious by a piece of "I-beam" about 17 meters long and 1.3 meters wide. He was confirmed dead after being sent to the hospital.

Source: hk1

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