{"id":1196,"date":"2016-06-29T09:31:38","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T14:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blueoceana.com\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2016-12-11T13:55:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T18:55:01","slug":"ilwu-walking-boss-succumbs-to-injuries-sustained-in-fall-on-log-ship-longview-wa-25-june-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/?p=1196","title":{"rendered":"ILWU Walking Boss Succumbs To Injuries Sustained in Fall On Log Ship  [Longview, WA &#8211; 25 June 2016]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/FOREST_TRADER.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1203\" src=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/FOREST_TRADER.jpg\" alt=\"FOREST_TRADER\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/FOREST_TRADER.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/FOREST_TRADER-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/FOREST_TRADER-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blueoceana Company has been made to understand from colleagues in Washington State, that Jimmy Meadows, Jr., a Walking Boss and member of ILWU Local Union 92 at Portland, Oregon, has died of injuries originally sustained in an accident occurring aboard <em>M\/V FOREST TRADER\u00a0<\/em>(shown above) at the Port of Longview, Washington on the afternoon of 21 June 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Very little, apart from the media account linked to here:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Worker-in-critical-condition-after-fall-at-Weyerhaeuser-dock-062116.pdf\">Worker in critical condition after fall at Weyerhaeuser dock (062116)<\/a>, <strong>has been made available. However, the following information appears credible:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Meadows, in the employ of Stevedoring Services of America, was atop a hatch cover when he fell approximately eight (8) feet to the weather deck. In that fall, he sustained several broken vertebrae (a broken neck), broken ribs and a very likely pierced lung. He was evacuated from the ship by emergency personnel and taken to a local hospital, where he was assessed to be in critical condition and put on life support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Subsequent neurological assessment disclosed the seriousness of his injuries and the inability to sustain life without extraordinary means. Life support was terminated yesterday, 25 June 2106.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Investigations by Federal OSHA, SSA and ILWU are ongoing, so it&#8217;s pointless and unwise to theorize as to proximate cause at the present time. When available, updates will appear at this page.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>29 November 2016:<\/strong> \u00a0 The Associated Press Reports:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/OSHA-cites-company-after-longshoreman-dies-at-Longview-dock-Belleville-News-Democrat.pdf\">osha-cites-company-after-longshoreman-dies-at-longview-dock-belleville-news-democrat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Meadows, Well-Liked Longshoreman, Withdrawn From Life Support<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1196","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\/1196","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=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1388,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions\/1388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}