Probe launched after worker, 62, falls to death while repairing plane in Hong Kong
Man falls from six-metre-high platform at Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Company worksite after mistakenly stepping into gap, police say
“Preliminary investigations have shown that while the worker was repairing a plane on site, he accidentally fell from a six-metre work platform,” a police spokesman said.
He added that the man had been repairing the aircraft’s fuselage indoors. The fall was thought to have happened when he mistakenly stepped into a gap between two work platforms.
The man was unconscious when officers arrived at the scene and was taken to North Lantau Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 10.07am.
The Labour Department expressed its deepest sympathy to the worker’s family and said it had started an on-site investigation as soon as it was notified about the accident.