Case study: Guan Houy Construction scaffold incident

Date: 22 August, 2021

Place: 448B Bukit Batok West Avenue

State: Singapore

Five workers were injured after a scaffolding fell from the ninth storey of a building under construction in Bukit Batok on Saturday on August 21^st, 2021.

On the day of accident, the Deceased and 5 other co-workers were installing the steel reinforcement bars for a roof reinforced concrete (RC) beam of a 9- storey detached house. This RC beam was located at an edge of the open side. This RC beam was located at an edge of the roof. The Deceased while handling one end of a rebar tripped and fell over the edge of the roof platform and landed on the ground about 9.8m down the Deceased was assisting two co-workers to dismantle the timber formwork at the 7th storey internal lift shaft core-wall. They were standing on a work platform of a scaffold built within the lift core-wall. In the process, the Deceased was believed to have fallen through a gap between the edge of the work platform and the lift core-wall.

Active and passive measures: The Deceased landed inside the lift pit and was pronounced dead by attending paramedics from the organization. Later on, the Deceased was conveyed by the ambulance to the Ng Teng Fong Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.

According to the ministry, the developer of the project under construction is MOH Holdings, the holding company for Singapore's healthcare institutions.

Now, compose an Incident report in the Memo format, as the Site in Charge Officer who was present at the time of the incident, to the Head of Operations of MOH Holdings, Nampweng Fey, briefing him on the Incident, with recommendations to avoid further occurrence as such. Do not leave any detail regarding the fact finding; maintain a Chronological order.

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