TANG LAI KING（鄧麗琼）for herself and on behalf of the members of the family of KEUNG CHOI ON（姜財安）, deceased v LEIGHTON CONTRACTORS (ASIA) LIMITED and GAMMON CONSTRUCTION LIMITED trading as LEIGHTON-GAMMON JOINT VENTURE (a firm)

Read the full judgment text of DCEC 2218/2014 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 5 January 2017.

1. On 9 December 2012, a fatal industrial accident happened at an open area storage place situated at DD 117, Lot No 1939, Middle Portion, Kung Um Road, Yuen Long, New Territories (“the Workplace”).  Mr Keung Choi On (“the Deceased”), aged 60, was working at the Workplace on that day.  While he was trying to rig some construction materials on the ground and hook them on to the jib of a crane, his head got hit by the jib and was trapped between the front-end of the jib and a close by concrete par