Marine Terminal Worker Dies in Runaway Industrial Truck Incident [Hong Kong (SAR), China – 19 October 2023]

Marine Terminal Worker Dies in Runaway Industrial Truck Incident [Hong Kong (SAR), China – 19 October 2023]

Posted by on Nov 17, 2023 in Bulletins

Marine Terminal Worker Dies in Runaway Industrial Truck Incident [Hong Kong (SAR), China – 19 October 2023]

News reaching Blueoceana Company has us understand that a 65 year old marine terminal worker at Ocean Terminal, Hong Kong was killed on the afternoon of October 19, 2023, when the industrial truck he had been operating went off the edge of Beiqaeo Pier in the city’s Tsim Sha Tsui district; carrying him with it.

Media reports (See links below) indicate that the worker, known to us only as “Chen”, had been moving palletized materials and during that process dismounted the industrial truck he had been operating on one of the terminal’s inclined ramps. The machine apparently kept on moving and Chen attempted to bring it to a stop. Instead, he apparently tripped over materials that had been carried on the machine and got caught up on and carried off by the industrial truck; into Hong Kong harbor.

Anecdotal information states that the victim was “obese”, implying that such a condition may have had aggravating results.

Links To Media Accounts:

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Above: Ocean Terminal, Hong Kong
Above: Orientation of Ocean Terminal, Tsim Sha Tsui District, Hong Kong

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