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AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL!

ILWU Southern California District Council

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Death on the Docks:

Local 13 longshore worker
Carlos Rivera killed on the job at
California United terminal April 4th, 2008

VIEWING -- Sunday, April 13, 2008 from 4:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at Green Hills Memorial Park, 27501 S. Western Avenue, Rancho Palos Verdes.
MEMORIAL -- Monday, April 14, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. at Harbor Christian Center, 1552 Wilmington Blvd., Wilmington.
BURIAL -- Immediately following Memorial and proceed to Green Hills Memorial Park.

In honor of Brother Rivera, the employers have asked all cranes to boom up at 11:45 a.m. on Monday, April 14, 2008. This was last done on February 7, 2005, to honor brother Matt Petrasich, a Local 94 foreman with forty years on the docks who was killed while supervising cargo discharging operations at the Port of Los Angeles' Evergreen terminal. Click for video of cranes being boomed up for Matt Petrasich.

2nd generation longshoreman Reggi Ross (Local 10) killed Sept. 24th while lashing

Reginald "Reggi" Ross, a casual and second generation longshoreman, was struck and killed by a stack of containers while lashing cargo onboard the ship at SSA Dock 57 at approx. 4:30 p.m. on Monday, September 24th. He was alive during the rescue operation but died at hospital from his injuries.

Our sympathy goes out to his family and Reggi will be in our prayers.

Associated Press report on the death of Reggi Ross from the Torrance Daily Breeze

Pieces from the Oakland Tribune:

Longshoremen walk out to grieve for dead colleague, 9/26, early report on the port shutdown
Port of Oakland closes after death, 9/26, focusing on "backlogged" cargo... it's always about goddamned money
Port reopens after a day of mourning, 9/27, there's no cargo backlog

Reggi Ross becomes the NINTH ILWU worker killed on the job since January 2005.

At this sad and somber moment, we also remember...

Joseph Alesio, killed in April 2007 after being run over by a top-loader at the APL intermodal yard in Seattle.

Ken Eddo, who died from traumatic injuries in November 2006 caused when the yard tracker he was driving rolled violently into a standing position, slamming him into the interior of the cab.

Jose "Pepe" Perez Correa, who died in August 2006 when his truck crashed through a railing and plunged into the Stockton Deep Water Channel. Divers found the truck in 32 feet of water and recovered the body only after a 31-hour delay from the time of the accident, prompting union officials to press the city and the port for rescue and recovery divers.

Kimberly Kuchman-Miles, who died in August 2005 when a container fell off an Evergreen ship and crushed her. She was part of the lashing crew that had just gone on break when the can fell. Three other workers scrambled to safety. The Local 23 casual is the first female longshore worker killed on West Coast docks.

Robert Smith, who suffered a heart attack in April 2005 after a strenuous training of how to handle heavy steel bars used to lash cargo containers to a ship. Local 23 trainers called 911 and administered CPR, but had no readily available first aid kits, oxygen masks, CPR facilities or Automatic External Defibrillator (AED). The emergency crew that attempted to save Smith was dispatched from a fire station slated for closure but that the union fought to keep open.

Douglas Espinoza, who died in February 2005 when he stepped into a paper baler at California Waste Solutions, triggering an automatic sensor that activated the machine. Espinoza, a member of warehouse Local 6, had worked at the Oakland recycling facility for five years.

Matt Petrasich, who was found dead on January 31, 2005, on the top of a container stack on the ship "Ever Deluxe" at the Evergreen Terminal in Los Angeles Harbor. He had been supervising container discharge when the accident happened.

Robert Padgett, killed in January 2005 when a walkway on a cement loading machine at the Port of Redwood City collapsed and sent him plunging 40 feet down to the deck of the ship below. Padgett, a registered member of longshore Local 10 with 14 years of seniority, was working as a walking boss when it happened.

ILWU Worker Memorial 2007

LOCAL 94 CALENDAR

LOCAL 94 MEMBERSHIP MEETING
FIRST WEDNESDAY OF EACH MONTH
7:30 P.M. SAN PEDRO CRUISE TERMINAL

JUNE 2007 ILWU LOCAL 94 BULLETIN