The Daily News
Jun 22, 2016
Federal regulators have opened an investigation into the accident that critically injured a longshoreman aboard a ship at the Weyerhaeuser Co. log dock Tuesday.
Representatives from Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) were in Longview Wednesday interviewing people close to the incident, the agency confirmed. The investigation could take up to six months to complete, an OSHA spokesperson said.
The worker was hired by S.S.A. Pacific to load logs and was not a Weyerhaeuser employee.
Neither the victim's name nor an update on his condition were released Wednesday.
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A dockworker was in critical condition Tuesday afternoon after a fall at the Weyerhaeuser Co. log yard.
Longview fire officials and AMR responded to the incident at about 2 p.m. Tuesday, said battalion chief Troy Buzalsky. Medics were basket-lifted from the docks to an adjacent ship, where they treated an unconscious male adult, he said.
The victim was taken by ambulance to St. John Medical Center in Longview.
Buzalsky said it was not immediately known whether the man just fell or had some kind of medical emergency that caused him to fall.
Fire officials typically do not release the names of medical victims due to federal medical privacy laws. Buzalsky could not confirm his age.
The longshore foreman was not working for Weyerhaeuser at the time of the incident; rather, he had been hired by S.S.A. Pacific to load logs on behalf of a Weyerhaeuser customer, said Joe Abram, general manager for S.S.A.
“We are concerned for the well-being of our employee, and we appreciate the fast response and efforts of the ILWU, Weyerhaeuser first responders and the Longview Fire Department,” Abram said.