A 46-year-old construction supervisor fell nine metres to his death while climbing down scaffolding at a Jurong Region Line worksite near Block 202 Pandan Gardens on 13 November 2025. The incident happened around 5.30pm.
SCDF officers rushed him to Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead.
Who employed him?
The worker was on Leze Construction’s payroll. Leze Construction is a subsidiary of a subcontractor working under the main contractor, Daewoo-Yongnam Joint Venture.
The Land Transport Authority, which oversees the project, slapped a stop-work order on the worksite right after the fall.
Safety pause across all projects
LTA didn’t just stop work at that one site. The authority called for a safety time-out for all at-height work activities across its projects. Workers need to review whether they’re following safety procedures properly.
LTA said it takes every safety incident seriously. The authority confirmed that established work-at-height safety procedures are already in place at its worksites.
Investigation underway
LTA is helping the Ministry of Manpower figure out what went wrong.
MOM stressed a critical rule: workers doing any job at height must maintain “100 per cent tie-off” at all times. That means your safety harness stays anchored to independent and secure points continuously. No exceptions.
Industry safety numbers
The construction sector recorded 76 deaths and major injuries in the first half of 2025. That’s down from 81 during the same period in 2024.
Still, Minister of State for Manpower Dinesh Vasu Dash warned the industry against getting comfortable. Major infrastructure projects like the Changi Airport and Marina Bay Sands expansions are coming up, and workers can’t afford to let their guard down.
Not the first death on this line
This isn’t the first fatality on a Jurong Region Line worksite. In January 2024, a 27-year-old Myanmar national died after falling roughly 7.5 metres over the edge of an uncompleted platform along Jurong West Street 75, near the future Gek Poh station.
That worker, employed by Jiangxi Construction Development, was putting together a platform when he fell at around 2.30am on 4 January 2024.
About the line
The Jurong Region Line is Singapore’s seventh MRT line. It’ll open in three stages starting from 2027.
The line will have 24 MRT stations, including three interchange stations at Boon Lay, Choa Chu Kang, and Jurong East. It’s meant to improve connectivity in western Singapore.
