Steel company fined for negligence that led to contractor's death


IPOH: Lysaght Galvanized Steel Sdn Bhd was fined RM35, 000 by a Sessions Court here yesterday after it pleaded guilty to negligence that caused the death of a contractor in April this year.

Chua admitted to committing the offence at the factory in Tasek Industrial Estate near here at about 10am on April 22.

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