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A 38-year-old Hong Kong air conditioner repairman has died after falling off a building in Kowloon City while doing repair works without any protective gear, the South China Morning Post has learned.
A source familiar with the matter said police received a report at 12.15pm on Tuesday of a man falling from Billionaire Avant residential estate in Kowloon City.
“Earlier in the day, the deceased went to a flat on the 11th floor to repair an air conditioner. He climbed out of a window in the bathroom to repair a split-type air conditioner, resulting in a fall to the second-floor podium of the building,” the source said, adding that “the deceased had not put on any protective gear”.
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A security guard called police.
The worker was sent to Kwong Wah Hospital in Yau Ma Tei, where he was pronounced dead at 1.34pm.
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Police contacted the Labour Department to conduct an on-site investigation, which is ongoing.
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