TWO WORKERS FATALLY CRUSHED; TWO SERIOUSLY INJURED IN GRANITE HANDLING EXERCISE [MUMBAI, INDIA – 29 NOVEMBER 2018]

A report coming from India (see link below), confirms that two workers at a Mumbai area container freight station (CFS) were crushed to death and two were seriously injured last Thursday (29 November) during their handling of large containerized granite pieces to facilitate a port customs service examination.

From the tenor of the article, it appears that assigned workers at the APMT facility declined to handle the granite owing to its size/weight. Consequently, it is alleged that outside laborers were hired to conduct the work and were killed/injured during that process.

Four persons were arrested and charged with various negligence and endangerment statutes.

We understand that APMT operates two CFS facilities at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port complex.

Link to Media Account:  Granites fall while unloading in Uran, two labourers crushed to death (120118)

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Ron Signorino

President at The Blueoceana Company, Inc.

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