A worker was decapitated when he fell while working on bamboo scaffolding at an industrial building in Tsuen Wan yesterday.
The accident occurred at the Texaco Centre in Texaco Road, the same building where a 27-year-old firefighter was killed in mid-2007.
The 52-year-old worker, surnamed Cheung, had been removing water and drainage pipes on scaffolding erected on the outer wall of the building between the 13th and 23rd floors when the accident happened at 11.50am.
It is still not known from which floor the worker fell but initial investigations showed the man had been severely injured before falling on to the fourth-floor podium of the building, as bloodstains were found on the wall. A safety belt was found on the body but it is not known if it had been properly attached.
'There are no witnesses to the case, and we are still trying to contact the family of the worker,' a police spokesman said.
Labour officials visited the scene to investigate the accident.
'We have also contacted the employer of the worker, and under the law a report detailing the incident should be submitted by the company within seven days,' a spokeswoman for the Labour Department said.