51-year-old foreign worker dies after falling from Tampines condo work site
PUBLISHED ONDecember 19, 2017 3:41 AM
A foreign worker died after falling from the 10th floor of a construction site at Tampines Street 86 yesterday (Dec 18).
In response to media queries, a police spokesman said that they were alerted to the case of unnatural death at 11.08am on Monday.
"A 51-year-old man was found lying motionless at the said location and was pronounced dead by paramedics at the scene," the spokesman said.
The Straits Times understands that the man was a Chinese national, and that the site is where condominium The Alps Residences is being built.
A Ministry of Manpower (MOM) spokesman said:
"The deceased was performing formwork works on the 10th floor of a building when he fell and landed on the fourth floor."
The occupier of the work site is China Jingye Engineering, he added.
A full Stop Work Order has been issued to the work site and investigations by the police and MOM are under way.