Shipboard Worker Struck & Killed By Clamshell Bucket During Bulk Cargo Discharge Operation [Jacksonville, Florida – 02 January 2022]
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Information coming to Blueoceana Company indicates that an as-yet unnamed worker was struck by a shoreside crane’s clamshell bucket this afternoon, while aboard a bulk cargo vessel docked at the Keystone Properties Terminal near the Talleyrand section of Jacksonville, Florida.
We further understand that the local Sheriff’s Office, the U.S. Coast Guard and OSHA have each begun investigations into this accident.
In the fullness of time, we expect further information to develop and when it does it will appear at this page as an update.
In the meantime, we are able to provide a link to a short video clip made available through local television stations and a link to local media coverage:
https://www.facebook.com/wjxtjeneseharris/videos/339106374443621/
Link To Media Account:
UPDATE: 03 January 8:00 PM EST: Blueoceana Company has learned that the vessel at issue is M/V MAPLE (See photo below), which has called regularly at this particular marine terminal in the past.
UPDATE: 12 May 5:30 PM EST: After communicating today with a worker familiar with this facility, we’re made to understand that the fatally injured worker was in fact a crew member. Apparently, in a brief exercise meant to view the progress of work within the hold at issue, this crew member peered through a weather deck opening between the folded hatch cover and the hatch’s coaming, whereupon he was struck about the head and neck by the cycling clam shell bucket. We include a photograph taken recently aboard the same ship (See below) which simulates the location and the manner in which the crew member was presenting himself at such location.
