Port Everglades worker killed while loading container on ship

A worker died in a ship's cargo hold in Panama City, Florida after the ship rocked and two tons of paper being hoisted onto the vessel crushed him against a wall, the Department of Labor said on Friday. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, a division of the DOL, said that a group of three employees from Premier Bulk Stevedoring LLC, a Mobile, Alabama-based marine cargo contractor, were hoisting seven-foot-high rolls of paper five at a time using a shipboard crane onto the vessel M/V Weserborg. Each load weighed around two tons. The crane […]