{"id":5281,"date":"2021-10-05T10:19:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T15:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blueoceana.com\/?p=5281"},"modified":"2025-04-29T17:53:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T22:53:58","slug":"checker-fatally-crushed-by-displaced-stack-of-crates-04-october-2021-houston-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/?p=5281","title":{"rendered":"Checker Fatally Crushed By Displaced Stack of Crates  [04 October 2021 &#8211; Houston, Texas]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Preliminary information coming to Blueoceana Company this evening, alleges that a Houston, TX-based ILA clerk\/checker (a member of ILA Local Union 1351) working at that port earlier today (04 October) was fatally injured at a facility currently or formerly operated by a firm known as Woodhouse (<em>See <\/em>photo of the facility, below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We believe that Woodhouse was a corporation operating under the successorship of the Richardson group of companies but, pending confirmation, that eventuality is based only on conjecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was related (but not confirmed) that he was struck by a piece of freight. Our expectation, is that we will learn a good deal more about the factual aspects of this accident tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>UPDATE (05 October):&nbsp;<\/strong>2nd tier information coming to us, relates that the fatally injured checker (said to be Mr. David Ozuna) was attempting to locate identifying marks on crated stainless steel pipe (5-6&#8243; diameter\/35-40&#8242; long; stacked 4 high). To do so, a forklift truck assisted in marginally shifting the crates to allow a better look. In that process, the 2nd, 3rd and 4th high crates tumbled, landing on Mr. Ozuna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Woodhouse.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"972\" height=\"642\" src=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Woodhouse.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Woodhouse.png 972w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Woodhouse-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Woodhouse-768x507.png 768w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Woodhouse-207x136.png 207w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Woodhouse-430x283.png 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 972px) 100vw, 972px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong><em>Above: <\/em><\/strong>The Woodhouse [Richardson] Steel Terminal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-04-at-9.45.34-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"656\" src=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-04-at-9.45.34-PM-1024x656.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-04-at-9.45.34-PM-1024x656.png 1024w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-04-at-9.45.34-PM-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-04-at-9.45.34-PM-768x492.png 768w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-04-at-9.45.34-PM-1536x984.png 1536w, https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-04-at-9.45.34-PM.png 1664w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong><em>Above: <\/em><\/strong>Orientation of the Woodhouse [Richardson&#8217; Steel Terminal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. David Ozuna, ILA Checker, Crushed by Fallen Crates of Stainless Steel Pipe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5281","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\/5281","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=5281"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7324,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281\/revisions\/7324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueoceana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}