{"id":2177,"date":"2018-02-22T23:11:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T04:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blueoceana.com\/?p=2177"},"modified":"2018-02-27T09:41:52","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T14:41:52","slug":"unidentified-worker-plunges-to-death-at-delaware-river-bulk-terminal-claymont-delaware-22-february-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/?p=2177","title":{"rendered":"Dock Worker Plunges To His Death at Delaware River Bulk Cargo Terminal [Claymont, Delaware &#8211; 22 February 2018]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Information coming to Blueoceana Company this evening, relates that a 62 year old marine terminal worker died earlier today as his bulk cargo-moving, frontend loader plunged off &#8220;an elevated pier&#8221; and into the Delaware River at Claymont, Delaware (USA).<\/p>\n<p>We provide links (see below) to the most comprehensive (such as it is) media reports available, and will update this post should further facts come into our possession. The worker&#8217;s identity is presently unknown [<em><strong>see updated link below<\/strong><\/em>], but we do understand that the personnel at the Oceanport facility are unrepresented by a labor organization.<\/p>\n<p>Notwithstanding, we were able to obtain photographs of the facility, the operations conducted there and this morning&#8217;s rescue\/recovery efforts. Please find them posted below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link to Media Account: <a href=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Oceanport-employee-dies-after-driving-off-pier-in-Claymont-022218.pdf\">Oceanport employee dies after driving off pier in Claymont (022218)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Link to Updated Media Account:<\/strong> \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Oceanport-employee-who-died-after-driving-off-pier-in-Claymont-is-identified-022618.pdf\">Oceanport employee who died after driving off pier in Claymont is identified (022618)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Oceanport-employee-dies-after-driving-off-pier-in-Claymont_400x224_MOV.mov\"><strong>Newsclip: Oceanport employee dies after driving off pier in Claymont_400x224_MOV<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/526353_10152254949285427_1161660574_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2179\" src=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/526353_10152254949285427_1161660574_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/526353_10152254949285427_1161660574_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/526353_10152254949285427_1161660574_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/526353_10152254949285427_1161660574_n-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/11139427_923547187725683_621204258494280272_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2180\" src=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/11139427_923547187725683_621204258494280272_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/11139427_923547187725683_621204258494280272_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/11139427_923547187725683_621204258494280272_n-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/11139427_923547187725683_621204258494280272_n-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/10942639_10155161988880427_5842459935443099005_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2181\" src=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/10942639_10155161988880427_5842459935443099005_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/10942639_10155161988880427_5842459935443099005_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/10942639_10155161988880427_5842459935443099005_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/10942639_10155161988880427_5842459935443099005_n-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28377838_1633297263416691_8087257934700351397_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2187\" src=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28377838_1633297263416691_8087257934700351397_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28377838_1633297263416691_8087257934700351397_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28377838_1633297263416691_8087257934700351397_n-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28377838_1633297263416691_8087257934700351397_n-768x350.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28059434_1633297260083358_7918634887816355818_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2188\" src=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28059434_1633297260083358_7918634887816355818_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28059434_1633297260083358_7918634887816355818_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28059434_1633297260083358_7918634887816355818_n-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28059434_1633297260083358_7918634887816355818_n-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Claymont-Fatal-Accident.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2206\" src=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Claymont-Fatal-Accident.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"814\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Claymont-Fatal-Accident.jpeg 814w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Claymont-Fatal-Accident-300x153.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Claymont-Fatal-Accident-768x392.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 814px) 100vw, 814px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His Front-End Loader Driven Off Pier; Billy Burns Dies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2177","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\/2177","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=2177"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2208,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions\/2208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}