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IT has been more than four years, but Mr Pang Cheng Suan, 42, will finally be compensated for the injuries he suffered in a 2004 workplace explosion that killed four people, including his two bosses.
The signboard maker had to undergo multiple operations, which cost him more than $20,000 in hospital bills and lost income.
Things came to a head last year when the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) ruled that he had filed his compensation claim too late and the High Court upheld the ruling.
Mr Pang then went to the Court of Appeal, which ruled in his favour on Monday.
Not only did the court, comprising Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong and Justices V.K. Rajah and Andrew Phang, quash the MOM ruling, it also ordered the ministry to 'process his claim as soon as possible'.
The court also awarded costs to his lawyers, Senior Counsel Michael Hwang and Mr Ramasamy Chettiar.
Mr Pang's road to getting compensation has been riddled with bumps.
He filed a claim with the ministry soon after the accident, but withdrew it when he decided to sue his company, D-Sign Advertising, instead.
He changed his mind again when a coroner's inquiry into the deaths of his employers ruled that the blast had been an accident and not the result of anyone's negligence.
Read the full story in Wedesday's edition of The Straits Times.
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