Ssa Terminals: OSHA inspections and violations

Incident on Sep 16, 2012: Worker injured in fall from ladder

At approximately 2:12 p.m. on September 26, 2012, Employee #1, a 52-year-old mal e with Ssa Terminals, Inc., had just concluded performing preventative maintenan ce on the trolley rails of intermodal crane X415. Employee #1 stated that he tur ned himself around to face the ladder when for unknown reasons he slipped and fe ll. Employee #1 fell approximately ten-feet from the ladder or platform of an in termodal crane to grade. The platform is approximately ten-feet above a grade of asphalt and was approximately five-feet-wide by five-feet-wide. There was a sta ndard guard rail with a toe board, mid-rail and top rail that extended the perim eter of the platform. The platform guard rails did not appear to be damaged or o therwise compromised. No holes or openings were noted in the floor of the platfo rm. No grease or other foreign matter that could have contributed to the inciden t was observed on the floor of the platform. Employee #1 was taken to the hospit al and was hospitalized for four days due to broken left femur. The employer was a stevedoring company with forty-two employees and approximately fifty-acres of property and four intermodal container cranes from the Port of Oakland.

Incident on Mar 27, 2012: Employee fractures knee in fall in employee restroom

At 9:15 a.m. on March 27, 2012, Employee #1, Class A Longshoreman and signalman of SSA Terminals was taking his morning break. Their crew had been transported f rom the working dock up to the Longshoreman's break area, and they were entering the men's rest room. Employee #1 lost his balance and fell while walking into t he rest room, landing on his knees, resulting in a fractured right upper leg. Th e rest room area was clean, dry, well lit and well maintained. SSA Terminals was a stevedoring company, which unloaded container ships in Long Beach Harbor. He was then transported by Long Beach Paramedics to St. Mary's Medical Center, wher e he was hospitalized. The following day, surgery was conducted to repair the fr actured femur.

Incident on Nov 20, 2008: Employee is injured in collision

On November 20, 2008 Employee #1 was driving a pick-up truck at an SSA Marine te rminal when it collided with a forklift. He sustained a minor head laceration.

Incident on Aug 23, 2008 (fatal): Employee falls in water and drowns

At approximately 10:50 p.m. on August 23, 2008 an employee, a longshoreman worki ng on Crane Number 19 was struck by a forty foot intermodal shipping container. The employee was holding a stuck twist lock open with a one high unlocking pole and working within three to four feet of the container as it was hoisted. The co ntainer knocked the employee over the stern of the vessel. He fell fifty feet in to the water, landing approximately ninety-seven feet from the dock. He attempte d to swim to the apron but drowned before he could make it to safety.

Incident on Sep 24, 2007 (fatal): Employee dies after being crushed between two containers

On September 24, 2007, Employee #1, a casual longshoreman, was crushed between t wo loaded containers and a bulkhead (50 tons) while lashing onboard the vessel S TUTTGART EXPRESS berthed at Oakland International Terminal in Oakland, Californi a. The coroner's report states cause of death as multiple blunt force injuries i ncluding multiple fractured ribs, tearing of the vena cava, a fractured pelvis, a fracture of the T3-T4 vertebra, bilateral hemothorax, hemoperitoneum, and a la ceration of the scalp. Employee #1 was allowed to work closer than five containe rs from where the crane was loading containers onboard the vessel.