A suspected wartime mortar round has been safely detonated by bomb disposal officers at a Hong Kong construction site, with no evacuations needed. A source familiar with the matter confirmed to the South China Morning Post that the suspicious object workers discovered at 9.32am on Tuesday at a construction site at Kwu Tung North Multi-Welfare…
Two workers were killed and three others injured in two separate Hong Kong construction site accidents on Wednesday. One of the men died after being hit by gas cylinders that fell out of a metal cage being hoisted by a tower crane at a site on Po Fung Road in Tsuen Wan. Police received a…
A fire at a construction site ignited an apartment complex next door Friday night. 48 hours later, crews are on scene at Olympic Place spraying water down on hot spots to make sure the flames don’t spark once again. The building was demolished on Sunday because the building was deemed unstable. Amherst Fire Chief Lindsay…
A woman has been killed after being struck by a crane while working on a construction site in Hong Kong. The accident occurred at around 3.30pm on Tuesday afternoon at the site on Tai Po Road in Cheung Shue Tan, when the worker became trapped between the crane and railings after being hit by the…
Two Hong Kong construction workers suffered injuries, including a fractured leg, after a temporary lift they were using to transport goods plunged from a height of 10 metres (33 feet) on Saturday. Police said that they received a report at 1.32pm about a pair of workers who were suspected to be trapped in a temporary…
Hundreds of federal agents descended on a sprawling site where Hyundai manufactures electric vehicles in Georgia and detained 475 people, most of them South Korean nationals. This is the latest in a long line of workplace raids conducted as part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda. But the one on Thursday is especially distinct…
A Hong Kong worker has died in hospital after being trapped in a lift shaft at a construction site at Queen Mary Hospital in Pok Fu Lam for nearly two hours. The worker, 57, had been carrying out maintenance on a lift in a building on Pok Fu Lam Road at 5.40pm on Sunday. The…
Two men issued with two-way exit permits have been arrested for allegedly stealing 32 bags of copper wire and tools worth HK$30,000 (US$3,820) from a construction site in Hong Kong’s Kwun Tong. Police said on Tuesday that a security guard at a construction site located at 11-15 On Yu Road in Sau Mau Ping discovered…
A worker fell to his death at a construction site in Hong Kong on Tuesday, despite reportedly wearing a safety harness. The 62-year-old scaffolder was working on the fifth floor of a construction site on On Chuen Street, next to the Grace Industrial Building, in Fanling and fell sometime before 3pm. His colleagues found him…