{"id":4020,"date":"2019-11-21T20:48:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T01:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blueoceana.com\/?p=4020"},"modified":"2019-11-21T20:49:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T01:49:45","slug":"port-worker-fatally-injured-aboard-geared-bulk-carrier-struck-by-chain-sling-colombo-sri-lanka-18-november-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/?p=4020","title":{"rendered":"Port Worker Fatally Injured Aboard Geared Bulk Carrier, Struck By Chain Sling  [Colombo, Sri Lanka -18 November 2019]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Blueoceana Company has been made to understand that Mr. Gurulupotha Wadiye Gedara Priyantha Gunatunga, 47, a port worker of some 25 years, was fatally injured the morning of 18 November aboard <strong>M\/V TAN BINH 246<\/strong> (<strong>Ex M\/V SILVRETTA<\/strong>) when it is alleged that he was struck in the head by a  chain sling that had &#8220;broke[n] free&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M\/V TAN BINH 246<\/strong> (See photo below) was docked at Colombo port&#8217;s East Terminal at the time of the accident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The worker was taken to Colombo National Hospital, where he expired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Link To Media Account: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Port-Worker-killed-in-accident-at-Colombo-harbor-111919.pdf\">Port Worker killed in accident at Colombo harbor (111919)<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Port-Worker-killed-in-accident-at-Colombo-harbor-111919.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"595\" src=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/SILVRETTA.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4022\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/SILVRETTA.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/SILVRETTA-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/SILVRETTA-768x571.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption><strong>M\/V TAN BINH 246 (Ex M\/V SILVRETTA)<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"969\" height=\"436\" src=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-21-at-8.32.27-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-21-at-8.32.27-PM.png 969w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-21-at-8.32.27-PM-300x135.png 300w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-21-at-8.32.27-PM-768x346.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 969px) 100vw, 969px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Orientation of East Terminal; Colombo; Sri Lanka<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gurulupotha Wadiye Gedara Priyantha Gunatunga Suffers Blunt Trauma Injury Aboard M\/V TAN BINH 246<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4020","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\/4020","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=4020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4026,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions\/4026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}