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Denise Tsang

A 20-year-old worker has died after being pinned against a wall by a railway engineering vehicle at a depot of the MTR Corporation in an industrial accident that is being investigated by the Labour Department.
Sources said on Friday that police had received a report at 12.16pm about a worker who had been trapped by the 56-metre-long (184-foot-long) vehicle at the Siu Ho Wan depot at North Lantau.
They said the man was walking past the rear of the vehicle, but it suddenly slipped backwards and pressed him against a wall.
He sustained serious injuries to his left leg and waist area.
Other workers rushed to rescue him, according to the insiders.
The man was unconscious when sent to Princess Margaret Hospital in Lai Chi Kok, where he was certified dead in the evening.
The rail giant said it was highly concerned. The area where the accident took place had been temporarily sealed off with repair and maintenance work suspended, according to the MTR Corp’s chief of operating and metro segment, Cheris Lee Yuen-ling.
Lee said the worker had been a railway repair and maintenance apprentice since September last year.
She said the accident occurred before he was due to head out for lunch.
“We express our condolences to his family and will provide assistance needed,” she said. “We will look into the reason behind the accident and facilitate the relevant authorities’ investigation.”
Fay Siu Sin-man, chief executive of the Association for the Rights of Industrial Accident Victims, said the NGO was saddened by the death and was helping the family at the hospital.
She said the MTR Corp’s staff had briefed the family on the basic facts of the accident at around 8pm. Family members had called on the company to provide details of the findings of the investigation.
Lawmaker Gary Zhang Xinyu, formerly an engineer with the MTR Corp, said he was shocked and saddened.
He cited the MTR Corp’s safety protocol, which stipulates that rail motor cars are only allowed to move after all workers have been cleared from tracks. Whenever a carriage needed to move backwards, it must have an extra crew member to signal to a captain to coordinate the movement, he added.
“I demanded the MTR get to the bottom of the accident including finding out any failure in supervision or breach of safety protocols,” he said.
Police have classified the case as an industrial accident.
The department said it had immediately deployed staff to the scene upon receiving a report and was conducting an investigation to look into the cause of the accident.


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Sources say 56-metre-long railway engineering vehicle slipped backwards and pressed 20-year-old worker against wall


Sources say 56-metre-long railway engineering vehicle slipped backwards and pressed 20-year-old worker against wall.


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Hong Kong worker dies after being pinned against wall at MTR Corp depot

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Sources say 56-metre-long railway engineering vehicle slipped backwards and pressed 20-year-old worker against wall