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Wynna Wong

A construction worker lost consciousness after falling from scaffolding at a Hong Kong village house under renovation, amid a string of similar accidents over the past month.
Police said they received a call at 10.13am on Tuesday about a 65-year-old male worker who had fallen at the house on Wun Yiu Road in Tai Po.
Officers arrived to find the man unconscious with a head injury. He was sent to Prince of Wales Hospital in Sha Tin for treatment.
The worker had fallen from a scaffolding that was about two storeys high.
The case has been classified as an industrial accident, with police investigating the cause.
The incident follows a string of other similar accidents, including a fatal case in November, in which a wall collapsed during demolition work and crushed a worker at a village house in Yuen Long.
Days earlier, a male construction worker also died after falling nine storeys while erecting bamboo scaffolding on the external wall of a building under construction. Authorities suspended the project’s contractor from tendering for public works and launched an investigation.
In yet another case, police arrested two men last month after reclassifying an industrial accident involving collapsed scaffolding as manslaughter. Two workers were killed and three others injured in that case, which occurred last February.


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Police say male construction worker, 65, was conducting renovation works at house in Tai Po when he fell and lost consciousness


Police say male construction worker, 65, was conducting renovation works at house in Tai Po when he fell and lost consciousness.


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Worker unconscious with head injury after falling from scaffolding in Hong Kong

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}Police say male construction worker, 65, was conducting renovation works at house in Tai Po when he fell and lost consciousness

Police say male construction worker, 65, was conducting renovation works at house in Tai Po when he fell and lost consciousness