INVESTIGATORS will today start examining the wreckage of the passenger lift that killed 12 workers in a 17-floor plunge on Wednesday.
Engineers spent 10 hours removing the cage from the site in Quarry Bay yesterday.
The buckled hoist cage with its motor attached to the shattered ceiling was last night at a government workshop in Causeway Bay.
A special inquiry team - comprising four senior Labour Department factory inspectors, government engineers and police officers - monitored the removal.
The team is expected to complete a preliminary report within two weeks.
Work on the site remained suspended yesterday but workers cleared debris from the third floor podium, where the overloaded hoist had landed, to make room for military crane lorries to operate.