Environment agency and two employees charged over 2021 Tuas Incineration Plant explosion that killed two

Christopher Lee Yew Binn (left) and Ng Wah Yong were also handed one charge each under the Workplace Safety and Health Act. - ST

SINGAPORE: The National Environment Agency (NEA) and two of its employees have been charged with workplace safety offences over a 2021 explosion at the Tuas Incineration Plant (TIP), which killed two men and injured one.

The charges, handed down on Dec 26, allege that NEA failed to take necessary measures to ensure the safety and health of its employees at work, contributing to the deaths of two of them, Kwok Yeow Wai and Wee Eng Leng.