Report into fatal accident at Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge finished
Highways Department says findings have been passed on to police
A team assembled to look into the accident on the multibillion-dollar Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge which killed two workers and injured three others has finished its investigation and passed the findings to the Labour Department and police.
The task force, under the Highways Department, submitted a report to the director of highways on Friday, a department spokesman said on Monday.
He said the report would not be released, lest it affected possible criminal proceedings.
On March 29, the workers at the bridge had been hooked to a temporary working platform with harnesses, underneath a viaduct off Tai O, Lantau Island. When that platform suddenly collapsed into the sea, they were pulled down with it.
Contractor Dragages-China Harbour-VSL Joint Venture has been accused of breaking safety rules by letting the workers hook their harnesses to a floating platform instead of something more secure.
The Highways Department said it had referred the report to the relevant law enforcement agencies.