Gek Poh MRT station along the new Jurong Region Line will be haunted

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Worker dies after falling 7.5m at Jurong Region Line work site​

The Ministry of Manpower said the accident took place near Jurong West Street 75, where the future and tentatively named Gek Poh MRT station will be located. PHOTO: SCREENGRAB FROM GOOGLE MAPS

Kok Yufeng
Transport Correspondent

Jan 5, 2024

SINGAPORE - A construction worker died in the early hours of Jan 4 after he fell about 7.5m while at a work site for the upcoming Jurong Region Line (JRL), the first reported fatal workplace accident of 2024.
The 27-year-old from Myanmar fell over the edge of an unfinished platform that he was installing at about 2.30am.
The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) said the accident took place near Jurong West Street 75, where the future and tentatively named Gek Poh JRL MRT station will be located.
The Singapore Civil Defence Force received a call for assistance at Block 749 Jurong West Street 73, which is next to Jurong West Street 75.
The worker, who was employed by Jiangxi Construction Development, was taken to Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, where he later died from his injuries.
MOM is investigating the incident, and the Land Transport Authority (LTA), the project’s developer, is assisting with the probe.
“We share our deepest condolences with the family of the deceased worker and are working with our contractors to provide them with support and assistance,” said an LTA spokeswoman, adding that it takes a serious view of such safety incidents.

CES_SDC, a subsidiary of construction and real estate conglomerate Chip Eng Seng Corp, is the occupier of the Jurong West Street 75 work site and the project’s main contractor.
It was awarded a $226.6 million contract in 2020 by LTA to design and construct the JRL stations in Gek Poh and Tawas, as well as two viaducts totalling 1.3km, one running along Jurong West Street 75 and the other running between the two stations.
Following the fatal accident on Jan 4, work at the Jurong West Street 75 construction site was stopped.
At the same time, a safety timeout was imposed on all LTA work sites, which means construction work must be suspended temporarily so that safety procedures can be reviewed, and a list of activities like conducting meetings with workers to recap site safety is completed. The safety timeout is still ongoing.
MOM said that as a general safety measure, workers should be equipped with safety harnesses and secured to anchor points at all times when there is a risk of falling from a height.
The accident on Jan 4 is the second time a worker has died at an LTA work site in the past two months, and the second worker death linked to the construction of the JRL.
Work on the first phase of Singapore’s seventh MRT line, which includes the stations in Gek Poh and Tawas, is expected to be completed in 2027, a year later than originally scheduled due to delays caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
When fully opened in 2029, the 24km-long above-ground rail line will have 24 stations – extending the reach of the MRT network to the Jurong area.
Daily ridership is expected to grow from 200,000 in the initial years to more than 500,000, along with the development of the Jurong Innovation District, Tengah town and Jurong Lake District.

 

[laksaboy]

I will never forgive them for destroying a nice exercise corner at Pandan Reservoir to build the JRL MRT line. Good thing I went there many times during the height of the scamdemic, because I didn't want to scan SafeEntry to get into the stadium.

 

[Balls2U]

Will there be a SiokBin MRT station somewhere in Jurong East? If have, no need worker die also will be haunted by a virgin slut.

 

[oliverlee]

2 deaths at this site. Not a good start

 

[nabeifuckpap]

Jurong so many bus services wasting taxpayers money to build a MRT when a LRT is enough

 

[millim6868]

All in the familee need suck money

 

[myfoot123]

Jurong, Tampines, Sengkang. The 3 most difficult towns to manuveur around even with transport.

 

[laksaboy]

Jurong so many bus services wasting taxpayers money to build a MRT when a LRT is enough

Totalitarian regime needs to keep building more crap to raise the GDP, can forget about having a Samsung or TSMC in POFMA Land.

It's not just the low SES areas... refer to the TEL MRT line at the East Coast area, or the DTL MRT line along Bukit Timah.

 

[laksaboy]

Jurong, Tampines, Sengkang. The 3 most difficult towns to manuveur around even with transport.

Jurong is less of a town and more of a 'zone', think along the lines of Katong or Tanglin. Not one specific town.

 

[blackmondy]

Jurong, Tampines, Sengkang. The 3 most difficult towns to manuveur around even with transport.

Jurong west is the worst. Taman Jurong is the best.

 

[bobby]

Another poorly underpaid foreigner died for our country….can award him a posthumous medal ?

 

[jsctan]

Bus & car much better than MRT. Go to many places directly. Spent so much money & still fall short.

 

[k1976]

I will never forgive them for destroying a nice exercise corner at Pandan Reservoir to build the JRL MRT line. Good thing I went there many times during the height of the scamdemic, because I didn't want to scan SafeEntry to get into the stadium.

U live near Teban Garden?
Small world

 

[laksaboy]

Jurong Region Line is just a glorified LRT network.

They destroyed a fitness corner at Pandan Reservoir, and a cluster of trees opposite Teban Gardens Road (next to Commonwealth Secondary School) to build that MRT line.

Commonwealth Secondary School. Photo from Aug 2019.
Jurong Town Hall Road is in the middle, going from left to right. Teban Gardens hawker centre and the cluster of flats in the background.
That row of trees along the road is more or less gone now.

Pandan Reservoir Fitness Corner, July 2020:

 

[Franjipani]

Will there be a SiokBin MRT station somewhere in Jurong East? If have, no need worker die also will be haunted by a virgin slut.

It should be named SiaoLangBin MRT station preferably build in front of Mayfair Condominium

 

[cocobobo]

Lol... If like dat haunted, many blocks also haunted. I'm sure many more died in the days they used bamboo scaffoldings to build and paint HDB blocks. Not even mentioning the many thai construction workers who died in their sleep at construction sites.