For the second time this year, a worker’s been killed in a Harbor Island incident. Three months ago, a Vigor Shipyard worker died after a fall; last night, a forklift driver at Terminal 18 was killed, according to our partners at the Seattle Times. Seattle Fire crews were summoned last night, and SFD spokesperson Kyle Moore tells WSB, “We responded to Terminal 18 last night to reports of a person falling. When firefighters arrived, the workers at the dock had already freed the patient from being trapped. Apparently the mast of the forklift dropped and trapped the man between the mast and the roof of the forklift. The man was in and out of consciousness. Seattle Fire Paramedics rushed the man to Harborview Medical Center with life-threatening injuries.” He later died, and the longshore workers’ union, ILWU Local 19, called a 24-hour work stoppage at the terminal, as per custom after a fatality. The man has not yet been publicly identified.
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