9 months’ jail for supervisor of diver who died after being pinned underwater at jetty

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Muhammad Firdaus Jasni, 27, died of traumatic asphyxia with lung contusions in 2018. Read more at straitstimes.com.

SINGAPORE – The supervisor of a diver who was killed by a fallen structure that pinned him underwater at a jetty was sentenced to nine months’ jail.

He was employed by ship building and repair firm Marine Diving & Engineering for about 11 years and had been a diving supervisor for about nine years at the time of the incident.Ministry of Manpower prosecutor Delvinder Singh said that on July 23, 2017, a chemical tanker collided into a jetty at Pulau Sebarok and partially damaged it.

Marine Diving & Engineering was engaged to carry out underwater concrete pile cutting work, and Mr Firdaus was part of a dive team of eight that was tasked with removing the concrete piles. Koh was also a part of this dive team. After each pile was cut, the diver had to surface to the work barge. Koh was also supposed to ensure that all divers were out of the water before giving an all-clear signal for the pile to be lifted out of the water and onto a crane barge.

 

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