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SINGAPORE \u2013 A 38-year-old Bangladeshi worker has died after a tree-felling accident at a private residence in Katong on the afternoon of Oct 13.<\/p>\n
Responding to queries from The Straits Times on Oct 14, the police and the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said they were alerted to a work-related incident in Cranborne Road at around 2.35pm on Oct 13.<\/p>\n
The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) said in a statement that the man was in the middle of tree-felling works when the tree toppled at its base, causing him to fall with the tree.<\/p>\n
He was then taken unconscious to Tan Tock Seng Hospital, where he later died, the authorities added.<\/p>\n
The police said that based on preliminary investigations, they do not suspect any foul play.<\/p>\n
Police and MOM are investigating the incident.<\/p>\n
In its statement, the ministry said employers should ensure that a suitable assessment of the tree and work methods is conducted before tree-felling works begin.<\/p>\n
They should also ensure that the work is done by trained workers, in accordance with established safe work procedures.<\/p>\n
MOM said the man is employed by Soh & Tan Enterprises, adding that the company has been instructed to cease all tree-felling activities involving tree climbing, pending investigations.<\/p>\n
A spokeswoman for Soh & Tan Enterprises told ST that the worker had been with the company for \u201ca few years\u201d. He worked as a tree climber at the site, and was responsible for the pruning and cutting of trees.<\/p>\n
He was wearing a safety harness during the operations, the spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n
The company is arranging a funeral for the worker and is fully cooperating with the authorities in their investigations, she added.<\/p>\n
In its mid-year Workplace Safety and Health Report<\/span><\/a> on Sept 8, MOM said more people had died from injuries sustained at work in the first half of 2026 compared with the same period in the previous year.<\/p>\n Singapore\u2019s workplace fatality rate in the first six months of 2026 rose to 1.1 deaths per 100,000 workers, up from 0.97 the year before.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 A 38-year-old Bangladeshi worker has died after a tree-felling accident at a private residence in Katong on the afternoon of Oct 13. Responding…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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