A TOTAL of 26 enterprises and individuals have been included on the city’s blacklist of poor work safety records and fined for work safety negligence that led to 26 fatalities this year.

The incidents at work places, such as construction sites, were mainly due to negligence in implementing the city’s work safety rules, the office of Shenzhen Municipal Administration of Work Safety said in a release Wednesday.

The enterprises on the blacklist will be restricted or banned from project filing, land use, administrative approval, government procurement, and getting bank loans, financing, government incentives and subsidies, the office said.

In July, a worker died in a fall from a building at the construction site of the new Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center in Fuhai Subdistrict, Bao’an District.

An investigation revealed that the project contractor, Shenzhen Jinxin Green Construction Shareholding Co. Ltd., hadn’t provided work safety training or skill training to the workers and failed to implement work safety procedures. After the accident, the company failed to report to the authority in a timely manner, lied about the incident and fabricated the accident scene.

The company has been fined 1.22 million yuan (US$176,812) by Bao’an District Work Safety Bureau.

In another case in June, a worker with Shenzhen Zhongtai Construction and Labor Co. Ltd. was electrocuted while working at a parking lot in Longhua District. An investigation found that the company ignored electricity management regulations by assigning a worker who hadn’t received proper training on working with electricity to the scene. The company has been fined 220,000 yuan by Longhua District Work Safety Bureau.

(Han Ximin)