FOURTEEN years ago, six workers died when a lift plunged seven floors at a construction site in Kowloon Bay.
A cable snapped as the men were going up to the roof of one of the blocks at Telford Gardens on July 22, 1979.
The site contractor, Hopewell Construction Company, was ordered to ground all similar lifts in use during an investigation launched by the Government.
Hopewell said the lift had been in use for only six months and had been periodically checked before a mechanical fault caused the accident.
But investigators found that the cable snapped because of motor malfunction, which meant the gears were running out of order.
An inquest returned verdicts of accidental death and found that there were design faults in the lift.
The jury recommended that the rules for design and maintenance of passenger hoists be tightened.