Man dies after fall from tower at Lantau cable car site

Updated at 6.13pm: A Swiss-German site supervisor for the Lantau cable car project died on Friday after falling from a tower at the Ngong Ping station site.

The 38-year-old man lost his footing on a working platform at the 30-metre-tall tower at 9.30am. While his safety belt kept him dangling at the top of a high tower, he received serious head injuries, local radio reported.

A Government Flying Service helicopter recovered the man and took him to Eastern District Hospital. He was later confirmed dead.

Work at the site was suspended following the accident, local radio reported.

A spokesman for the MTR Corporation, which is building the cable car system, said the company would investigate the accident.

The 5.7-kilometre cable car located on the northern part of Lantau Island is scheduled for completion this year.