Jurong Shipyard fined over death of two workers

Singapore

JURONG Shipyard, a unit of Sembcorp Marine, has been fined S$230,000 for poor equipment maintenance which resulted in the death of two workers.

The company breached the Workplace Safety and Health Act for failing to ensure that the aerial platform on which the workers were working was maintained in a safe condition, the Manpower Ministry (MOM) said on Thursday.

The workers were killed on Oct 29, 2011 when they fell about 30 m to the bottom of a dry dock.

Jurong Shipyard had been engaged to perform repair works on a vessel which had been docked in a dry dock in its…