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An image of a Hong Kong construction worker smoking a cigarette while on bamboo scaffolding at a residential building has prompted outrage among internet users, who have drawn comparisons with the suspected cause of the city’s deadliest fire in decades.
An image shared on a Facebook page called the Shau Kei Wan Sai Wan Ho Concern Group showed a worker smoking a cigarette while standing on scaffolding erected around what was identified as Tai On Building.
A second worker in the same photo can be seen wearing a hard hat with the name of a local scaffolding company and its phone number shown.
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The South China Morning Post has contacted the company for comment.
“This is a matter of life and death; this person’s licence should be revoked,” one user wrote.
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“Take note before this becomes a Wang Fuk 2.0,” another wrote, referring to the Tai Po fire, which killed 168 people last year.
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