Docker Dead After Fall Into Water at Shipside [San Antonio, Chile – 30 November 2020]
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With great regret, Blueoceana Company has learned of a fatal accident occurring late last night (30 November) at the Port of San Antonio, Chile.
In that accident, Sr. Rodrigo Esteban Flores Alvarez, a longshore worker at that port, fell from the stringpiece and into the water adjacent to the docked bulk carrier M/V IONIAN SEA (See photograph below). It is understood that immediately before his fall Sr. Flores Alvarez had been preparing a landing area on the dock’s apron for the discharge of cargo (clinker) from the ship.
It has been reported that he was not wearing any form of personal flotation, and the only photograph currently available does not appear to show any perimeter barrier (bull rail) at the water’s edge.
A small boat attempted rescue and resuscitation several minutes later, whereupon the fall victim was transported by ambulance to a local hospital where he died.
It is alleged that Sr. Flores Alvarez had just returned to work after a long thrombosis-related period away. In the absence of an autopsy’s conclusions, we can only conjecture the actual cause of death.
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