{"id":1359,"date":"2016-12-10T22:29:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T03:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blueoceana.com\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2017-03-26T13:50:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T18:50:51","slug":"marine-terminal-supervisor-killed-in-container-loading-process-san-juan-pr-11-july-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/?p=1359","title":{"rendered":"Marine Terminal Supervisor Killed In Container Loading Process  [San Juan, PR ~ 11 July 2016]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>While media coverage is virtually non-existent, Blueoceana Company has learned that a mid-level manager who had been in the employ of Island Stevedoring of San Juan, Puerto Rico, was struck and killed by a large (1,000 lb.) bale of recycled cardboard while supervising workers in the loading of an intermodal container at the terminal operator&#8217;s Isla Grande leasehold.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In speaking with company principal&#8217;s, our understanding is that the bale fell out of stow during the forklift loading process and onto\u00a0Rafaela\u00a0Garcia. Sr. Garcia had been an employee of the firm for many years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Cardboard-bales-2_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1361\" src=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Cardboard-bales-2_large.jpg\" alt=\"cardboard-bales-2_large\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Cardboard-bales-2_large.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Cardboard-bales-2_large-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Cardboard-bales-2_large-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Cardboard-bales-2_large-49x49.jpg 49w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Cardboard-bales-2_large-184x184.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update &#8211; 16 February 2016:\u00a0<\/strong>Blueoceana Company understands that OSHA has issued a citation to the employer on <strong>04 January 2017,<\/strong> alleging several violations of the agency&#8217;s Marine Terminals regulations. Expanded information dealing with the results of OSHA&#8217;s investigation may be found using this hyperlink:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.osha.gov\/pls\/imis\/establishment.inspection_detail?id=1162280.015\">https:\/\/www.osha.gov\/pls\/imis\/establishment.inspection_detail?id=1162280.015<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Garcia Struck By Falling Bale of Cardboard at San Juan Port<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1359","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\/1359","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=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1504,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions\/1504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}