Engineers served notice over accident

Collapse: Fire and Rescue Department officials checking the site of the accident in Prai.

BUTTERWORTH: The engineers involved in the construction of steel frames for a building in Prai, where an accident killed three ­workers and injured another three, have been served with a breach of construction notice by the Seberang Prai Municipal Council (MPSP).

This is in addition to the stop-work order issued to the contractor under Section 70(9)(b) of the Drainage and Building Act 1974 immediately after the accident on Friday.

Caring Society and Environment Committee chairman Phee Boon Poh said the contractor had been directed to give his feedback on the accident, including the breach on the ­structure and the rectification which had been put in place.

“Other measures taken by the MPSP were monitoring of the site, monitoring the feedback and rectification by the contractor and collaboration with the Department of Occupational Health and Safety.”

Three men died and three others sustained serious injuries when the steel frame of the building collapsed in Lorong Perusaahan Maju 8, Prai on Friday.

The dead are Malaysian P. Kumar, 46, while the Myanmar nationals are 32-year-old Rofi Khan and 20-year-old Amir Udin Abol Kasim.

Central Seberang Prai OCPD Asst Comm Nik Ros Azhan Nik Abdul Hamid said the two Myanmar and one Indonesian worker who were injured were still in the Seberang Jaya Hospital.