{"id":2676,"date":"2018-10-22T21:45:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T02:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blueoceana.com\/?p=2676"},"modified":"2021-03-27T19:57:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T00:57:46","slug":"marine-terminal-worker-falls-to-his-death-north-vancouver-bc-canada-22-october-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/?p=2676","title":{"rendered":"Marine Terminal Worker Falls To His Death  [North Vancouver, BC, Canada &#8211; 22 October 2018]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With great regret, Blueoceana Company has been made aware of a fatal accident occurring earlier today at Neptune Terminals, North Vancouver, BC, in which a board member (not yet a member of ILWU Canada Local 500) longshore worker fell approximately 40 feet (12.2 meters) while attempting to access the bucket end of a coal stacker\/reclaimer in order to perform a wash down.<\/p>\n<p>He died of injuries sustained in that fall. \u00a0Confirmed reports tend to hold that the expanded metal grating on the long walkway the worker was on &#8220;fell away&#8221; during use, leading to this deadly fall.<\/p>\n<p>The accident is being investigated by the Royal Canadian Moun<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">ted Police, Employment and Social Development Canada, the terminal&#8217;s labor management site safety committee and a safety coordinator for ILWU Canada, independently.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>In the fullness of time, we hope to have more information to offer about this accident at this page in the form of update(s).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hi-bc-130510-coal-terminal-8col.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2678\" src=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hi-bc-130510-coal-terminal-8col.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hi-bc-130510-coal-terminal-8col.jpg 780w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hi-bc-130510-coal-terminal-8col-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hi-bc-130510-coal-terminal-8col-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p><strong>Neptune Terminals&#8217; website:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.neptuneterminals.com\">http:\/\/www.neptuneterminals.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Neptune Training Videoclip in re Working at Heights:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/neptunebulkterminals.com\/videos\/5a387057-1261-4a0f-92f4-523d1d7dd20b\">https:\/\/neptunebulkterminals.com\/videos\/5a387057-1261-4a0f-92f4-523d1d7dd20b<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2691\" src=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"597\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1-1.jpeg 597w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1-1-300x186.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2679\" src=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"790\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2.jpeg 790w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2-300x219.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2-768x562.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update &#8211; (23 October 2018, 2:45 PM EST): Media reports have begun to appear. Notwithstanding, the finer factual aspects of this accident remain somewhat ambiguous.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Link to Media Account: \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bc.ctvnews.ca\/longshore-worker-killed-in-accident-at-north-shore-terminal-1.4146133\">https:\/\/bc.ctvnews.ca\/longshore-worker-killed-in-accident-at-north-shore-terminal-1.4146133<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Update &#8211; (27 March 2021) Canadian Court&#8217;s final disposition:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsnews.com\/local-news\/neptune-terminals-to-be-fined-250k-in-workers-death-3581373?fbclid=IwAR1hMLStcXkT8Q4vPsB-0Ig394Iy5_muujsnFNEUwhoaT6D1ieje1W-y56E\">https:\/\/www.nsnews.com\/local-news\/neptune-terminals-to-be-fined-250k-in-workers-death-3581373?fbclid=IwAR1hMLStcXkT8Q4vPsB-0Ig394Iy5_muujsnFNEUwhoaT6D1ieje1W-y56E<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/documentcloud.adobe.com\/link\/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:d2ad2568-7b38-4a36-bf9e-1949a4e2fc95\">https:\/\/documentcloud.adobe.com\/link\/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:d2ad2568-7b38-4a36-bf9e-1949a4e2fc95<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don Jantz, Longshore Worker, Falls 40&#8242; From Bucket End Of Coal Stacker\/Reclaimer During Wash Down Exercise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2676","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\/2676","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=2676"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4933,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions\/4933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}