Landscaping employee dies whereas hoisting tree trunk in forty third office fatality this yr

SINGAPORE – A Bangladeshi employee died on Wednesday after a tree trunk that was being hoisted to be loaded right into a truck grew to become dislodged, hitting him and inflicting the person to fall and hit his head towards the pavement.

The 28-year-old man’s demise takes the full variety of office fatalities recorded in 2022 to 43 – the very best quantity since 2017, when there have been 42 office deaths.

As compared, there have been 37 work-related deaths in 2021, 30 in 2020, and 39 in 2019.

The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) stated on Thursday that the newest deadly accident befell in Toa Payoh East Street, close to 1003 Toa Payoh Industrial Park, at about 3.30pm on Wednesday.

The Bangladeshi employee employed by Penta Panorama was concerned within the loading of tree trunks after tree pruning works had been carried out there.

The lifting operations had been carried out utilizing a lorry crane, and as one of many tree trunks was being hoisted, it slipped from the lifting sling and hit the employee, MOM stated.

The person was taken to Tan Tock Seng Hospital, the place he died from his accidents.

MOM is investigating the accident and has ordered Penta Panorama to cease all tree pruning and lifting actions.

The ministry stated that as a common security measure, all hundreds have to be correctly rigged and secured by a reliable rigger earlier than lifting operations are carried out by cell cranes.

The newest employee demise comes after MOM had earlier put in place more durable sanctions to curb a latest rise in office deaths.

Composition fines for offences noticed throughout security inspections had been doubled in June, and corporations have been made to engage external auditors to assessment their administration techniques if they’ve been issued stop-work orders or have had employees who suffered main accidents whereas on the job.

Beneath a six-month heightened security interval from Sept 1, 2022 to Feb 28, 2023, that was additionally instituted by MOM, firms will be barred from hiring new international employees for as much as three months if extreme lapses are discovered following a critical or deadly office accident.

Senior Minister of State for Manpower Zaqy Mohamad beforehand stated that the heightened security interval had proven promising outcomes, with the typical variety of office deaths every month in 2022 having dipped from about 4½ to 2 since Sept 1.