https://www.scmp.com/rss/523415/feed The latest news and top stories on The Association for the Rights of Industrial Accident Victims. A prominent Hong Kong-based non-profit organisation, The Association for the Rights of Industrial Accident Victims was founded in 1981 by work injury victims and their families. It is dedicated to fighting for the rights of industrial accident victims, occupational disease sufferers and families of industrial fatalities. Its main areas of focus include providing support services, rehabilitation... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Jess Ma Jess Ma A 38-year-old Hong Kong air-conditioner repairman has died after falling off a building in Kowloon City while working without any protective gear, the South China Morning Post has learned. A source said police received a report at 12.15pm on Tuesday of a man falling from Billionnaire Avant, a high-rise residential block, in Kowloon City. “Earlier in the day, the deceased went to a flat on the 11th floor to repair an air conditioner. He climbed out of a window in the bathroom to repair a... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3354082/air-conditioner-repairman-dies-after-falling-11th-floor-kowloon-city-building?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3354082/air-conditioner-repairman-dies-after-falling-11th-floor-kowloon-city-building?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 19 May 2026 07:56:13 +0000 Danny Mok Danny Mok A lift technician has died after being struck by a large piece of falling metal while carrying out maintenance work inside a shaft at a luxury estate in Hong Kong, according to an initial police investigation. The 26-year-old man was working inside the shaft on the eight floor of Block 4 of Pacific View on Tai Tam Road in Stanley while three other colleagues were on the upper floor on Monday, a force spokesman said. The investigation suggested an L-shaped iron piece, about a metre long and 10cm... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3352392/lift-technician-dies-after-10-metre-fall-down-shaft-hong-kong-luxury-estate?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3352392/lift-technician-dies-after-10-metre-fall-down-shaft-hong-kong-luxury-estate?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 04 May 2026 12:02:20 +0000 Fiona Chow Fiona Chow Grieving relatives of domestic helpers killed in the Tai Po fire have struggled to break the news to victims’ children while fending off scammers targeting their compensation from Hong Kong authorities, according to a workers’ rights advocate after a trip to Indonesia. Esther Tse Yan-yin, an organiser from the Association for the Rights of Industrial Accident Victims, travelled to Indonesia in January to visit the immediate relatives of eight helpers who died in the inferno at Wang Fuk Court... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3351582/families-indonesian-helpers-who-died-tai-po-fire-struggle-break-news-kids?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3351582/families-indonesian-helpers-who-died-tai-po-fire-struggle-break-news-kids?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:09:33 +0000 Jess Ma Jess Ma An air-conditioner technician was critically injured after falling from a ladder in Hong Kong’s Tsuen Wan on Thursday morning. Police said they received a report at 9.18am that the man, who is in his sixties, had fallen while working at a building at 88 Yeung Uk Road. The man was unconscious when taken to Princess Margaret Hospital in Kwai Chung, the force said. “As of 11.45am, the worker was admitted to the intensive care unit,” a police spokesman said. Fay Siu Sin-man, chief executive of the... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3347969/air-con-technician-critically-injured-after-fall-ladder-tsuen-wan?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3347969/air-con-technician-critically-injured-after-fall-ladder-tsuen-wan?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 26 Mar 2026 06:53:41 +0000 Edith Lin Edith Lin Hong Kong labour authorities are investigating the cause of a fatal industrial accident involving a worker who fell to his death from the third floor of a food factory while setting up scaffolding. The police force received a report at around 1.30pm on Tuesday that a 57-year-old worker had fallen from support brackets on the facade of a food factory at No 14 Dai Fu Street. The victim, who fell unconscious, was rushed to Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital in the district. He was later... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3344460/hong-kong-authorities-probe-death-scaffolding-worker-who-fell-factory?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3344460/hong-kong-authorities-probe-death-scaffolding-worker-who-fell-factory?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:09:44 +0000 Vivian Au Vivian Au Hong Kong authorities will expedite updates to safety guidelines for elevated work platforms and launch a large-scale inspection campaign after three workers died in accidents involving work at height or lifting devices. Secretary for Labour and Welfare Chris Sun Yuk-han on Saturday expressed grave concern over the string of industrial fatalities, vowing that the government would take follow-up action. “We will expedite updates for the guidelines for elevated work platforms, such as highlighting... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3340262/hong-kong-fast-track-safety-guideline-updates-after-3-work-height-deaths?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3340262/hong-kong-fast-track-safety-guideline-updates-after-3-work-height-deaths?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 17 Jan 2026 10:29:26 +0000 Oscar Liu Oscar Liu An elderly cleaner was injured after being struck by a left-hand drive car with a trade licence plate at a Hong Kong public housing estate – the second street-worker accident in just over a week. Police received a report at 6.18am on Wednesday that a Geely multipurpose vehicle (MPV) was making a right turn out of a car park at Lek Yuen Estate in Sha Tin when it struck the cleaner pushing a trolley outside Kwai Wo House. The accident left the 74-year-old victim, surnamed Wong, in a semi-conscious... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3338988/cleaner-hit-left-hand-drive-geely-car-hong-kong-second-such-accident-week?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3338988/cleaner-hit-left-hand-drive-geely-car-hong-kong-second-such-accident-week?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 07 Jan 2026 03:52:15 +0000 Fiona Chow Fiona Chow The number of deaths from workplace accidents in Hong Kong rose to a record 118 this year, including 16 killed in the deadly Tai Po fire, with a union calling for full transparency in investigation reports and heavier penalties on those found liable. The Association for the Rights of Industrial Accident Victims on Tuesday revealed that the 118 deaths stemmed from 102 accidents in 2025 across various industries, including sectors in construction, logistics and transport. Ten domestic helpers,... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3337487/heavier-penalties-urged-job-deaths-hong-kong-rise-55-118?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3337487/heavier-penalties-urged-job-deaths-hong-kong-rise-55-118?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 23 Dec 2025 09:30:15 +0000 Aisyah Llewellyn Aisyah Llewellyn Suyitno first saw the news of a deadly fire at Wang Fuk Court in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district on social media last Wednesday afternoon. Yet, despite the harrowing footage of the estate engulfed in billowing smoke and leaping flames, Suyitno, who lives in the Indonesian city of Malang in East Java and whose wife was working in Hong Kong as a domestic helper, was not immediately concerned. He did not recognise the location as the workplace of his 39-year-old wife Erawati, who had been living on and... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3334868/indonesian-helpers-last-call-husband-tai-po-fire-she-asked-me-forgive-her?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3334868/indonesian-helpers-last-call-husband-tai-po-fire-she-asked-me-forgive-her?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 02 Dec 2025 05:55:45 +0000 Matthew Cheng Matthew Cheng A workers’ rights organisation and other concern groups in Hong Kong have warned the public to be vigilant against fraudulent appeals for donations by those exploiting the deaths of domestic helpers in the Tai Po fire. In a joint statement on Tuesday, the Association for the Rights of Industrial Accident Victims, the Indonesian Migrant Workers’ Network, Beranda Migran and the Coordination of Returned Indonesian Migrants urged the public to refrain from donating directly to the families of the... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3334863/groups-warn-against-donation-drives-exploiting-helpers-who-died-hong-kong-fire?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3334863/groups-warn-against-donation-drives-exploiting-helpers-who-died-hong-kong-fire?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 02 Dec 2025 05:14:20 +0000 Wynna Wong Wynna Wong A Hong Kong construction worker was killed on Wednesday morning after a wall collapsed during demolition work at a village house in Yuen Long, as labour authorities stepped in to investigate the city’s third fatal industrial incident in four days. Police said they received a call at 10.58am that the perimeter wall of a house on Shan Pui Road had collapsed. The wall, measuring about two metres (6.5 ft) high, eight metres long and one metre wide, had fallen during demolition work and crushed the... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3331626/hong-kong-worker-killed-wall-collapses-during-demolition-work-yuen-long?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3331626/hong-kong-worker-killed-wall-collapses-during-demolition-work-yuen-long?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 05 Nov 2025 09:51:13 +0000 Danny Mok Danny Mok A woman has been killed after being struck by a crane while working on a construction site in Hong Kong. The accident occurred at around 3.30pm on Tuesday afternoon at the site on Tai Po Road in Cheung Shue Tan, when the worker became trapped between the crane and railings after being hit by the moving machine. Emergency personnel freed her, but she later died from her injuries at Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital in Tai Po. Police are investigating the incident and the Labour Department... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3327424/female-worker-killed-moving-crane-hong-kong-construction-site?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3327424/female-worker-killed-moving-crane-hong-kong-construction-site?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 30 Sep 2025 12:07:27 +0000 Wynna Wong Wynna Wong The widow of a lift repairman who died last year after working for 59 hours straight is planning to take legal action against her late husband’s employer, as an advocacy group raised concerns about the city’s lack of laws protecting against overwork. The widow, who only wished to be identified as Mrs Chan, said on Wednesday that her late husband, Chan Ka-yee, had worked for Sigma Elevator for more than 25 years before he died in July last year at the age of 59. “He left for work at around 7am on... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3322569/widow-hong-kong-repairman-who-died-after-working-59-hours-plans-legal-action?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3322569/widow-hong-kong-repairman-who-died-after-working-59-hours-plans-legal-action?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:47:32 +0000 Danny Mok Danny Mok A worker fell to his death while working on the rooftop of a three-storey Hong Kong village house on Wednesday, taking the number of industrial fatalities in July to 10, according to a concern group. Police said on Wednesday that the 44-year-old cleaning and maintenance worker was carrying out work on top of the house in Tai Lam Chung Tsuen before he fell and lost consciousness at about 3.20pm. Emergency personnel arrived and rushed him to Tuen Mun Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead at... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3320177/hong-kong-worker-dies-after-falling-3-storey-village-house?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3320177/hong-kong-worker-dies-after-falling-3-storey-village-house?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 30 Jul 2025 12:54:41 +0000