Man falls from six-metre-high platform at Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Company worksite after mistakenly stepping into gap, police say
“Preliminary investigations have shown that while the worker was repairing a plane on site, he accidentally fell from a six-metre work platform,” a police spokesman said.
He added that the man had been repairing the aircraft’s fuselage indoors. The fall was thought to have happened when he mistakenly stepped into a gap between two work platforms.
The man was unconscious when officers arrived at the scene and was taken to North Lantau Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 10.07am.
A Labour Department spokesman said authorities were investigating the accident.