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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1990

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ON SCIENCE AND

HE SAID THAT UNDER THE AEGIS OF THE COMMITTEE TECHNOLOGY, CONSULTANTS HAD BEEN ENGAGED TO STUDY THE EXPLOITATION BIOTECHNOLOGY IN HONG KONG'S CIRCUMSTANCES.

OF

MILLION FROM THE AT THE SAME TIME, WITH A DONATION OF $300

INSTITUTES HAD BREN ROYAL HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB, TWO BIOTECHNOLOGY ESTABLISHED IN THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG.

AND

MORE INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS BUT FEWER KILLED

ACROSS THE BOARD IN FAR FEWER WORKERS WERE

THE NUMBER OF INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS ROSE THE FIRST THREE MONTHS OF THE YEAR ALTHOUGH KILLED AS A RESULT.

ACCORDING TO

STATISTICS

RELEASED

TODAY (WEDNESDAY), 8,783 ACCIDENTS WITH 12 BETWEEN JANUARY AND MARCH THIS YEAR.

BY THE

:

LABOUR DEPARTMENT FATALITIES WERE REPORTED

THIS

REPRESENTS A

PER 14

CENT

INCREASE OVER

THE 7,693 DROP OF 55

ACCIDENTS IN THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR BUT A SIGNIFICANT PER CENT FROM THE 27 FATALITIES.

A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT SAID THAT OF ALL THE THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY ALONE ACCOUNTED FOR

MANUFACTURING

INDUSTRY AND

ACCIDENTS, 4,109 CASES, FOLLOWED 847 IN THE MINING,

IN THE BY 3,827 QUARRYING, UTILITIES, TRANSPORT AND SERVICING INDUSTRIES.

"COMPARED WITH THE FIRST

QUARTER

LAST 16

OF

THE YEAR,

NUMBER

A

PER CENT INCREASE, CONSTRUCTION

REGISTERED ACCIDENTS

BY 11 MANUFACTURING ACCIDENTS WERE UP BY 13 PER CENT AND THE REST UP PER CENT," THE SPOKESMAN SAID.

AND

"HOWEVER, FATALITY RATES DROPPED IN ALL THESE INDUSTRIES,

NO

SIX TO THREE TO FIVE TO NINE RESPECTIVELY, HE NOTED.

16

CASES,

+

CASES,

AS FOR THE MAJOR CAUSES OF THE ACCIDENTS,

THOSE IN PREVIOUS THEY WERE INVARIABLY SIMILAR TO STEPPING ON OR STRIKING AGAINST OBJECTS (2,824 CASES), MANUAL OF GOODS (1,521 CASES), MACHINERY (1,461 CASES), FALL OF PERSONS CASES), HAND TOOLS (551 CASES) AND FALLING OBJECTS (497 CASES).

DUE MAINLY

FROM

CASES

THE SPOKESMAN SAID THAT IS YEARS,

LIFTING (970

HOT OR CORROSIVE

TRANSPORT, ΤΟ WERE THE REST SUBSTANCES, FIRE OR EXPLOSION, ELECTRICITY, AND SO ON.

/OF THE