SINGAPORE – A construction supervisor tragically died after falling approximately 9 metres at a worksite for Singapore’s Jurong Region Line, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) confirmed. The incident occurred on 13 November around 5.30 pm near Block 202, Pandan Gardens, as the 46-year-old worker was descending scaffolding. Following the fall, he was rushed to Ng Teng Fong General Hospital by Singapore Civil Defence Force officers, but was later pronounced dead.
The deceased was employed by Leze Construction, a subsidiary of a subcontractor working under the main contractor, Daewoo-Yongnam Joint Venture, LTA said. In response to the accident, LTA swiftly issued a stop-work order for the site and called a “safety time-out” for all at-height activities across its projects. The move aims to re-evaluate adherence to existing work-at-height safety procedures.
LTA expressed its deep condolences to the worker’s family and pledged to provide support. The authority emphasized that it treats all safety incidents with gravity and stated that “established work-at-height safety procedures” are already in place across its construction sites. Investigations are underway to determine how the fatal accident occurred.
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The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) is also involved in the inquiry. According to the ministry, workers who perform tasks at height must maintain “100 percent tie-off” at all times and anchor their fall-arrest harnesses to secure and independent points.
This is not the first fatal accident on the Jurong Region Line project. In January 2024, another construction worker died after falling about 7.5 m from an unfinished platform at the worksite along Jurong West Street 75. The recurrence of such incidents has raised concerns over construction safety and the enforcement of height-work regulations.
LTA has stated that it is fully cooperating with MOM to review what went wrong at this particular site and to ensure that future work-at-height operations meet strict safety standards.
