{"id":4923,"date":"2021-03-26T08:37:52","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T13:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blueoceana.com\/?p=4923"},"modified":"2021-05-06T08:26:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T13:26:40","slug":"checker-fatally-struck-by-rtg-savannah-georgia-26-march-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/?p=4923","title":{"rendered":"Checker Fatally Struck By RTG  [Savannah, Georgia &#8211; 26 March 2021]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Blueoceana Company is  very sad to report that a fatal accident occurred this morning at Georgia Ports Authority&#8217;s Garden City Container Terminal (Savannah, Georgia).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In that accident, Mr. Steven Cobb, a newly enrolled ILA checker (We&#8217;re told the son of checker who was killed on the job at the same terminal several years ago) was apparently in the container stacks searching for a box that had not been properly identified within the terminal&#8217;s operating system. As he exited a row, an RTG was simultaneously moving past that row; struck and dragged the checker along the RTG&#8217;s blind-side runway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The foregoing raises several important questions about concurrent pedestrian\/CHE use within stacks, the type of communications that must be ensured and also the type of training provided to new employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The accident is under active investigation by several entities, including the ILA~USMX Joint Safety Committee. As supplemental information becomes available it will be presented here, as an update.<\/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\/2021\/05\/Dock-worker-killed-in-RTG-accident-in-Port-of-Savannah-032621.pdf\">Dock-worker-killed-in-RTG-accident-in-Port-of-Savannah-032621<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Dock-worker-killed-in-RTG-accident-in-Port-of-Savannah-032621.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"982\" src=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Savannah-1-032621.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4924\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Savannah-1-032621.png 720w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Savannah-1-032621-220x300.png 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"759\" src=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Savannah-2-032621.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4925\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Savannah-2-032621.png 720w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Savannah-2-032621-285x300.png 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption><strong><em>Above Photographs<\/em>: The Accident Scene  <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"970\" src=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-26-at-9.30.54-AM-1024x970.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-26-at-9.30.54-AM-1024x970.png 1024w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-26-at-9.30.54-AM-300x284.png 300w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-26-at-9.30.54-AM-768x728.png 768w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-26-at-9.30.54-AM-1536x1455.png 1536w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-26-at-9.30.54-AM.png 1594w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><strong><em>Above:<\/em> Orientation of Garden City Terminal, Savannah, GA<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Cobb, ILA Checker, Fatally Injured In RTG Runover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4923","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\/4923","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=4923"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5010,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4923\/revisions\/5010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}