A sailor working
onboard the cargo ship Albert Oldendorff at a Port of
Oakland terminal was killed Nov. 18 after he fell several feet from a crane.
Oakland emergency crews
were called to the port about 2:30 pm and responded to the ship, which was
docked at metals recycling company Schnitzer Steel, where they found the man
lying on his back on one of the crane’s platforms, according to Oakland Fire
Battalion Chief Coy Justice.
Ship crewmembers were
already performing CPR and trying to defibrillate the worker, Justice said, but
the man had already died.
Witnesses told fire
crews that the man was working in a crane operator’s compartment and collapsed
inside. According to the Coast Guard, the man might have fallen out of the
compartment and dropped about six feet onto the platform.
The Albert
Oldendorff, a 561-foot long, 88-foot wide Portugese-flagged vessel,
arrived at the Port of Oakland Nov. 16 carrying scrap metal.
According to the Coast
Guard, the man was a Polish sailor and the ship’s chief engineer. His name has
not been released because his family has yet to be notified.
Autopsy results are
still pending.
