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"Pier Review"

Port of Los Angeles

September 18, 2001

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"A Need To Look Before We Roll To The Hole"

 

Port of Los Angeles

September 18, 2001

From Our Confidential Expert Witness  

 

"From many. One."

The Time: 1730 hrs.

The Date: Tuesday, 18 September 2001

- It was one week after America changed on Sept. 11.

- But America is quite well known for moving forward.

- America can look at this wharf incident - laugh - and then exceed world cargo handling.

- It is our system of allowing problems to be shown -- that is known as FREEDOM

- God Bless America.

The Place: Yusen Terminal. Port of Los Angeles (Berth 214 -- NYK Line) (terminal details on next page)

The INCIDENT:

It was the last the last container lift of the shift at 5:30 PM. An RTG (Rubber-Tired-Gantry) crane (or"Transtainer") was working the yard pile moving containers from storage to an outside trucker for a next leg of their movement off the terminal, toward delivery.

The RTG was traveling to move a can from the pile to where the trucker was parked

-- when the ground beneath the forward-left wheel gave way

-- to a sink hole on the dock itself.

Indeed, peers on the wharf said it was it was time for some "Pier Review!"

 

 It's left-foward wheel filling the hole -- the RTG proceeded to tilt over -- and --

 

 

-- and -- eventually collapsed the RTG onto the waiting truck & chassis.

It is understood that this 40 ft container was not overweight -- the ground just gave way.

NOTE: Port of Los Angeles trademark

Vincent Thomas Bridge<<webfeature, in background of above photo. See >> Aerial View

 

The trucker was uninjured -- minor cut on his arm.

We're still trying to find a manifest for this OOCL container

-- but hope this was not that shipment of fine china.

Because the RTG rolled over slowly, the operator was able to be helped out

-- before the cab was eventually crushed.

 

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