{"id":1842,"date":"2017-10-22T10:05:57","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T15:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blueoceana.com\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2017-11-26T16:02:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T21:02:29","slug":"marine-terminal-worker-suffocated-within-export-wood-pellet-silo-port-arthur-texas-20-october-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/?p=1842","title":{"rendered":"Marine Terminal Worker Suffocated Within Export Wood Pellet Silo  [Port Arthur, Texas  20 October 2017]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Reports coming to Blueoceana Company show that an as-yet unidentified worker was suffocated early Friday morning (20 October) in an avalanche of wood pellets at the <em>German Pellets Texas, LLC facility at the Port of Port Arthur<\/em>. Our understanding is that he was operating a Bobcat-like industrial front end loader\/pusher within one of the firm&#8217;s dockside silos when a product jam above him collapsed and engulfed him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/German-Pellet-Silo-Port-Arthur.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1844\" src=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/German-Pellet-Silo-Port-Arthur.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"725\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/German-Pellet-Silo-Port-Arthur.jpg 725w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/German-Pellet-Silo-Port-Arthur-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/8627996cf93480cd2f1e227c0ee21c9f.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1845\" src=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/8627996cf93480cd2f1e227c0ee21c9f.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/8627996cf93480cd2f1e227c0ee21c9f.jpg 474w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/8627996cf93480cd2f1e227c0ee21c9f-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/8627996cf93480cd2f1e227c0ee21c9f-140x94.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Link to Media Account: \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Man-dies-in-German-Pellets-accident-102017.pdf\">Man dies in German Pellets accident (102017)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Data available online tends to show that the firm&#8217;s Louisiana operation experienced a fatal accident last October, when a worker fell to his death from an elevating platform device. OSHA cited German Pellets Louisiana as a consequence of that accident&#8217;s investigation. Here&#8217;s a link to a related OSHA online inspection record:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.osha.gov\/pls\/imis\/establishment.inspection_detail?id=1189398.015\">https:\/\/www.osha.gov\/pls\/imis\/establishment.inspection_detail?id=1189398.015<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Earlier this year, another of the Port Arthur facility&#8217;s silos erupted in a fire that burned and smoldered for months. The resultant noxious fumes plagued the Port Arthur community to no end, causing the city to file legal action against the firm. Here&#8217;s a link to related media coverage:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.panews.com\/2017\/06\/04\/german-pellets-silo-collapses\/\">http:\/\/www.panews.com\/2017\/06\/04\/german-pellets-silo-collapses\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/23fad5_879a6a941fbf4820b8c076008b7d08edmv2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1843\" src=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/23fad5_879a6a941fbf4820b8c076008b7d08edmv2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"849\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/23fad5_879a6a941fbf4820b8c076008b7d08edmv2.png 636w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/23fad5_879a6a941fbf4820b8c076008b7d08edmv2-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worker Suffocated within German Pellets Texas, LLC Export Product Silo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1842","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\/1842","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=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1919,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions\/1919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}