19 Apr 2022

Maritime Union urges national inquiry after new fatality at Auckland port

From Checkpoint, 5:17 pm on 19 April 2022

There are calls for a national inquiry after another worker is killed on the job at Auckland's port.

The worker from private stevedoring firm Wallace Investments died after falling from a height while working on the Singaporean flagged container ship Capitaine Tasman this morning.

The accident is now being investigated by Maritime New Zealand. It's the fourth death in recent years around the port.

Former port boss Tony Gibson stepped down from the top job in May last year. His resignation followed a scathing health and safety review into operations there and called for safety to be prioritised over profits.

Craig Harrison from the Maritime Union talks to Lisa Owen.