Bangladeshi worker, paralysed after fall at worksite gets RM3.2mil compensation


Worker Janaed (on bed) had suffered severe injuries from a 3m-high fall in November 2018, and is now a bed-ridden quadriplegic.- JAHID FAMILY

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): It has been four and a half years since the incident and a Bangladeshi worker who was paralysed from the neck down after a 3.7m-high fall at a worksite in 2018 has been awarded S$971,000 (RM3.2mil) in damages from Westgate Tower’s subsidiary management corporation (MCST).

Janaed, who goes by one name and is now 47, suffered spinal injuries while inspecting an overhead chiller in the mechanical and electrical room at Westgate Tower in Jurong East on Nov 8, 2018.

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