NEWARK, NJ — One person was hurt after an accident involving a shipping container at Port Newark in Newark, New Jersey on Thursday, November 20th, 2014.
Police said that they have reason to believe a truck driver was seriously hurt when a shipping container fell onto the tractor-trailer he was driving at Port Newark. The container is thought to have fallen from a stack of shipping containers for reasons currently under investigation.
The driver of the truck was taken to University Hospital where he was being treated for unspecified injuries.
Newark Police are helping with the accident investigation at this time.
Scene of the Accident
Commentary:
Is anybody else as confused as I am as to how this accident happened? There had to have been a great deal going wrong for a shipping container to fall off a stack. Now, I’d be willing to go out on a limb and say that the truck driver and the company responsible for maintaining the shipping containers on the property belong to two different companies. If this turns out to be the case, then the company responsible for the shipping container being safely stacked and stored is probably going to bear some of the fault in the accident. Stacking boxes isn’t exactly rocket science, so I’d be very, very interested in finding out what in the chain of events led to this accident, and making whoever failed in their jobs answer for it.
— Grossman Law Offices
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