17 Feb 1992
WONG CHICK v. SWIRE PACIFIC LTD.
- Citation
- WONG CHICK v. SWIRE PACIFIC LTD.
- Court
- District Court
- Case number
- DCEC165/1990
The court held boiler-maker noise-induced deafness is not a scheduled industrial disease under the 1969 Ordinance and, on the evidence, resulted from a continuous, routine process of work rather than an 'accident' or series of fortuitous accidents; furthermore, even if treated as accidental, the applicant's asserted ignorance of entitlement did not constitute a reasonable excuse for failing to give notice and commence proceedings within the statutory 12 months, therefore the claim must be struck out.