Over-The-Road Driver Crushed By Container While Asleep On His Flatbed [Karachi, Pakistan – 21 July 2019]

Posted by admin on Jul 22, 2019 in Bulletins

With incredible regret, Blueoceana Company has moments ago been informed that an over-the-road drayman has been fatally crushed yesterday by a container that was landed on his flatbed trailer by an RTG at Karachi International Container Terminal (Pakistan). The driver, Muhammed Imran, was asleep on the trailer at the time, covered by a makeshift blanket that apparently concealed his presence.

Through conjecture only, we believe that he was permitted to enter the RTG’s service lane and awaited the terminal’s operations to begin. In the intervening period of time, he chose to stretch out under a blanket and rest.

We expect further information from several confidential sources at that port and elsewhere, but cannot help but greatly lament the growing number of similar accidents that have occurred at several ports over the last several years.

We have been provided with a video and several photographs (see links below). That being said, we caution readers that all are graphic to one extent or another. Your own discretion is therefore warranted.

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