{"id":1108,"date":"2016-03-31T05:55:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T10:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blueoceana.com\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2016-12-11T14:12:23","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T19:12:23","slug":"marine-clerk-fatally-injured-in-vehicular-accident-los-angeles-ca-30-march-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/?p=1108","title":{"rendered":"Marine Clerk Fatally Injured In Vehicular Accident  [Los Angeles, CA ~ 30 March 2016]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/banner.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1109\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1109\" src=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/banner.jpg\" alt=\"banner\" width=\"940\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/banner.jpg 940w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/banner-300x46.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/banner-768x118.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>While information has been minimal owing to the hour, The Blueoceana Company has received confirmation that a marine clerk (a member of ILWU Local Union 63) was killed in an accident occurring at Berth 232 in Los Angeles yesterday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>While we are withholding the fatally injured clerk&#8217;s name at present, we have confirmed that he was run over by an over-the-road trucker at the marine terminal leased to and operated by Everport Terminal Services (ETS).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Further information may be found at this page later today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The marine terminal leasehold at issue is marked as No. 22 within this map:<\/strong> \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/POLA_Cargo_Terminals_2015-copy.pdf\" rel=\"\">POLA_Cargo_Terminals<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Thursday, March 31\/11:00 AM<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Blueoceana Company can now, after proper family notification, release the name of the fatally injured worker as being that of <em>Anthony Harris.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Mr. Harris<\/em> was a 72 year old marine clerk (a member of ILWU Local Union 63), and a former member of ILWU Local Union 13. We understand that he was working in a &#8220;chalk &amp; walk&#8221; capacity, within an RTG block of containers at the time of the accident. On the East and Gulf Coasts, checkers performing such work are known as &#8220;location men.&#8221; They identify specific containers that are being called for and delivered to over-the-road (and other) vehicles, that they mark correspondingly.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>From what we now know (and can surmise), <em>Mr Harris<\/em> was working in or near an RTG service lane when he was drawn into the rear wheels of a tractor\/chassis combination calling for a container within that specific block of container stows.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Investigations are underway, having being initiated by Cal-OSHA, the terminal operator and ILWU.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Our thoughts are with his family and friends, to whom we express our deepest condolences.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Link to Media Account: \u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Port-terminal-accident-claims-life-of-71-year-old-marine-clerk-worker-033116.pdf\" rel=\"\">Port terminal accident claims life of 71-year-old marine clerk worker (033116)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Chalk &#038; Walk&#8221; Marine Clerk Struck By Over-The-Road Rig While In Pedestrian Transit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blueoceana_blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1399,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions\/1399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}