A machinery storage yard site supervisor was sentenced to 16 weeks’ jail for offences related to a fatal workplace accident in 2016, said MOM on Sat. Tay Yong Chuan, a site supervisor for ZAP Piling Pte Ltd, was sentenced to eight weeks’ jail under the Penal Code for intentionally obstructing the course of justice by asking a worker to take the blame for the fatal incident. The accident occurred on 9 June 2016 at the company’s machinery storage yard, located at 6 Kranji Link. On that day, the company’s workers were tasked to perform a functional test of a bore piling machine at the storage yard. Another worker, Arumugam Elango, rigged the bucket with the crane’s chain slings and moved to a space in between the machine and the stack of casings. When the crawler crane operator began operating the crane, the bucket knocked against the casings, causing some of them to topple and pin Elango against the track of the bore machine. Elango was pronounced dead at the scene due to multiple injuries....