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Contractor fined for safety violation

SINGAPORE : Contractor Mun Siong Engineering was fined S$100,000 on Tuesday for failing to provide a safe working environment for its employees.

Three of its workers died in a fire in 2007 at an oil refinery at Ayer Chawan Place in Jurong. One other worker was also injured.

Mun Siong was at that time engaged to repair equipment and fit pipes for ExxonMobil.

The accident happened when the company’s workers removed a steel plate between two heat exchangers.

They opened a flange and a flammable liquid flowed out. The workers sprayed water to wash it away but the liquid caught fire.

56-year-old Tan Kong Lam and 47-year-old Ng Swee Min, both Singaporean pipe fitters, died at the scene.

A 35-year-old Bangladeshi worker, Prabir Braja, suffered 70 per cent burns to his body and died later in hospital.

The Singapore Civil Defence Force and ExxonMobil took about an hour to put out the flames.

A Manpower Ministry report on the accident revealed that Mun Siong had failed to provide a suitable drip pan which could have prevented the liquid from spreading to other parts of the facility.

Five employees from ExxonMobil Asia Pacific and two others from Mun Siong were also charged in court on January 20 over the case. They will be dealt with later.

– CNA/al

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