{"id":3331,"date":"2019-04-13T15:53:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T20:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blueoceana.com\/?p=3331"},"modified":"2019-04-13T18:53:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T23:53:06","slug":"marine-terminal-worker-struck-killed-by-reversing-reach-stacker-lau-papua-new-guinea-03xx19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/?p=3331","title":{"rendered":"Marine Terminal Worker Struck & Killed By Reversing Reach Stacker [Lae, Papua New Guinea – “Relatively Recent” Date]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Blueoceana Company has received late word from friends in Australia, that an as-yet unnamed marine terminal worker in the employ of Bismark Maritime has been struck and killed by a reversing container reach stacker at the firm\u2019s Lae, Papua New Guinea facility.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exact date of the accident is presently unknown, but we\u2019ve been made to understand that its occurrence was \u201crelatively recent.\u201d There is also some conjecture that, while the machine’s backup alarm was ostensibly in good order, the worker was wearing earphones\/earbuds at the time of the accident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve also acquired photographs that are said to depict the accident scene which, after careful thought as to content, we will share here (see below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Globally; from a statistical sense, pedestrian marine terminal workers are at significant risk of being struck by the large industrial trucks that move containers throughout their respective facilities. Thus, employers, employees and their respective representational organizations are appropriately tasked in finding and maintaining a solution to the associated (and nearly always fatal) struck-by hazards that arise from such exposures. One reasonable component of such a solution, would be the hardcore banning of all personal electronic devices within active operational areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aerial View of Bismark Maritime Terminal, Lae, PNG<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Orientation of Lae, Papua New Guinea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bismark Maritime Terminal Worker Backed Over By Industrial Truck<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3331","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\/3331","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=3331"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3364,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331\/revisions\/3364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}