By South China Morning Post | Created at 2024-12-29 05:34:16 | Updated at 2024-12-30 22:50:00
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A Hong Kong worker was killed when a 1.2-tonne curtain glass wall struck him after it fell at a construction site atop the West Kowloon high-speed rail station.
Police said on Sunday that the incident, which took place a day earlier, had been classified as an industrial accident, adding the force would follow up with the Labour Department.
An employee at the Sun Hung Kai Properties-developed site had filed the police report, saying the victim was a 53-year-old man surnamed Leung and had been installing a glass curtain wall at a commercial building unit, the force added.
The 2.5-by-2-metre glass wall fell and struck Leung when a lifting strap broke. He immediately lost consciousness.
Paramedics took Leung to Queen Elizabeth Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. His cause of death is pending confirmation after a postmortem examination.
The construction site, located at the intersection of Jordan Road and Lin Cheung Road atop the West Kowloon Terminus, is part of a commercial project that Sun Hung Kai Properties has been developing since it won the tender in 2019.
