Read the full judgment text of DCEC 1340/2023 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 18 September 2025.
1. On 9 April 2022, whilst in the employment of the Respondent as a slipform erector, the Applicant was instructed to clear waste materials and to cover up a slab opening on the floor with a wood panel on 30 th Floor, North, Hopewell Centre II, Wan Chai, Hong Kong. As he stepped on the empty sack and the building debris on the ground next to the slab opening, he fell through the opening and got stuck in the opening on the 29 th floor, which was about 10 feet below the 30 th floor (“Accident”). I