A construction worker was killed and another was injured in an accident on June 27 at a worksite for the upcoming Johor Bahru-Singapore Rapid Transit System (RTS) Link station in Woodlands North.

The workers, aged 48 and 49, were injured by falling steel reinforcement bars that were being installed for the station’s foundation at around 9.30am.

Both workers were taken to Woodlands Health Campus Hospital, where the younger man, a Bangladeshi national employed by Maranatha Contractors, later died...

Police investigations are ongoing, but based on preliminary findings, foul play is not suspected...

Meanwhile, the authority is working with the main contractor, Japanese firm Penta-Ocean Construction, and the subcontractor involved, Interno Engineering, to assist the family of the dead worker.

MOM said it has instructed Penta-Ocean to stop all steel reinforcement work at the worksite...