Read the full judgment text of HCA 000864/1982 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 4 January 1984.
1. On the 29th December 1979 the plaintiff in this action, then some 26 years of age, was employed by the defendant to operate a plastic injection moulding machine in premises at Kwun Tong which constituted a factory and a registrable work-place within the meaning of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance, Cap. 59. The machine contained dangerous parts, namely closing nips between platen motions, which it was the defendant's duty effectively to guard by reason of the provisions of t