Joy Daniels,
45, suffered the medical emergency at about 2:45 pm Tuesday at the Hanjin
Shipping on Berth 55, according to International Longshore & Warehouse
Union Local 10. The cause is still under investigation, but union officials say
she suffered a seizure and heart attack.
As a result
of the incident, ILWU members ceased all work at the port for 24 hours in
solidarity with the deceased, as well as to conduct its own inquiry into what
happened. Port terminals reopened the evening of July 17.
Daniels’
death is the third at the port in less than a year, and the second in just two
months.
Operations
were last shut down at the port on May 17 after a truck being driven by a
longshore worker was knocked into the water by a piece of machinery.
Longshoreman Manuel Stimpson, 78, of San Francisco had worked at the port for
about 47 years when he was killed after the truck plunged into the San
Francisco Bay.
According to
ILWU representatives, Stimpson was working as a clerk and helping direct the
placement of containers when the truck went into the water near Berth 30 at the
TraPac terminal.
In October
2012, a mechanic performing maintenance on a crane died Oct. 24 after being
caught and crushed by a piece of heavy equipment.
Prior to
that, however, there hadn’t been an incident at the port resulting in a
fatality in at least five years, according to the California Division of
Occupational Safety & Health.
