Reefer Mechanic Suffers Fatal Fall From Container [Colón, Panamá  – 12 October 2023]

Posted by admin on Oct 16, 2023 in Bulletins

Blueoceana Company has been made to understand that Sr. Ricardo Martinez, 58, a refrigeration technician at a marine terminal in the port of Colón, Panamá, fell to his death from an unspecified, “considerable height” on Tuesday, October 12, 2023 during the course of his work there.

The media report linked-to below provides the sole source of information currently available to us. Should further factual information describing the circumstances of this accident become available, this post will be updated accordingly.

UPDATE – 18 October 2023: We now understand that on his lunch break Sr. Martinez chose to take a nap inside a grounded intermodal container. During his nap, an empty handler (side loader) was stacking containers and lifted the container Mr. Martinez occupied and placed it atop a two-high stack. Waking up, Sr. Martinez allegedly pushed open the door of the container and fell approximately twenty (20) feet to the container yard’s pavement.

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