On 30 August, a Ports of Auckland (POAL) stevedore was fatally injured while working on a ship at Fergusson Container Terminal, said POAL.<\/p>\n
POAL CEO, Tony Gibson, said: \u201cWe are all absolutely devastated by this news.<\/p>\n
\u201cAn investigation is underway, and we are providing support to our staff member\u2019s family and all our staff.\u201d<\/p>\n
“I’ve met with his family and offered all our love and support. We will do everything we can to help them through this tragic accident.”<\/p>\n
Limited disclosure<\/strong><\/p>\n POAL said it cannot currently provide any further information as the incident is under investigation.<\/p>\n New Zealand workplace health and safety regulator WorkSafe confirmed Maritime New Zealand will be leading the investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n New Zealand police are also making enquiries.<\/p>\n Earlier this month, POAL admitted a health and safety charge at the Auckland District Court following the death of a worker two years earlier. The worker died after sustaining serious injuries when a straddle carrier they were driving tipped on Fergusson Wharf.<\/p>\n IPOAL received a fine in July after pleading guilty to a health and safety charge following the 2017 death of a swimmer struck by a POAL pilot boat that was found to have exceeded speed limits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An investigation is underway following a fatality at a New Zealand container terminal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oceania"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}