Safety belt ‘may have played pivotal role’ in saving life of Hong Kong worker, 51, who fell 19 floors in fatal scaffolding collapse


The use of a safety harness may have played a pivotal role in saving the life of a woman worker who was standing on bamboo scaffolding around a high-rise building when it collapsed at Hong Kong’s former airport runway, the Post has learned.

During the incident, which claimed the lives of two other workers, the 51-year-old woman, surnamed Li, was working on the 15-by-eight-metre (49-by-26-foot) structure to install aluminium plates and glass on the outer wall on the 19th floor of the building on the city’s former Kai Tak Airport runway.

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