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Longshoreman Killed In Freak Accident Was Impossible Not To Love (TRIBUTE) Longshoreman Killed In Freak Accident Was Impossible Not To Love (TRIBUTE)
Longshoreman Killed In Freak Accident Was Impossible Not To Love (Tribute) Anywhere Uriel Matamoros went, he made a friend. "He never met a stranger," his obituary reads. "Every person in the world to him seemed to be just a new friend. He had a keen ability to bring out the best in others and always saw the good in them.  "Without hesitation he was always willing to give the shirt off his back to those who needed." The world lost a friend on Wednesday, July 13, when 59-year-old Matamoros was crushed to death by a piece of machinery at his job in Port Newark. A GoFundMe for Matamoros' family had raised more than $11,000 as of Monday, July 18. Matamoros moved t…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Unlicensed Bulldozer Driver Charged In Death Of North Bergen Recycling Plant Worker, 61 Unlicensed Bulldozer Driver Charged In Death Of North Bergen Recycling Plant Worker, 61
Unlicensed Bulldozer Driver Charged In Death Of North Bergen Recycling Plant Worker, 61 A 38-year-old North Bergen recycling plant trolly cart operator was charged in the death of his 61-year-old coworker, authorities said. Santiago Ventura Blanco was operating a bulldozer and pushing a concrete dumpster at Lincoln Recycling on Dell Avenue when Horacio Juarez Diaz was pinned between the dumpster and a wall Thursday afternoon, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. Diaz of Union City was found lifeless by responding police officers and pronounced dead at the scene around 3:20 p.m., Suarez said. Blanco of East Newark was arrested at the scene at 4 p.m., and char…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Worker, 19, Cutting Oil Tank Critically Burned In Garfield Flashback Worker, 19, Cutting Oil Tank Critically Burned In Garfield Flashback
Worker, 19, Cutting Oil Tank Critically Burned In Garfield Flashback A 19-year-old worker was critically burned on the lower half of his body after a flashback Tuesday afternoon while he was cutting an oil tank from the ground in Garfield, authorities said. “It appears that as he was cutting the tank with a saw,” Garfield Police Capt. Richard Uram said. “The sparks may have ignited the fuel, causing a flash.” “It does not appear they had a permit to remove the tank at this time,” Uram said. The victim was taken to St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston with burns over nearly 50% of his body, responders said. OSHA and a Bergen County Hazardous Materials…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Cheese-Making Machine Breaks Arm Of Ridgefield Dairy Plant Worker Cheese-Making Machine Breaks Arm Of Ridgefield Dairy Plant Worker
Cheese-Making Machine Breaks Arm Of Ridgefield Dairy Plant Worker A worker at a Ridgefield dairy plant suffered broken bones and cuts when his arm got caught in a machine that he was cleaning before dawn Tuesday, authorities said. A co-worker unplugged the machine and called 911 after the 56-year-old victim was injured by spiraling augers at Biazzo Dairy Products on Edgewater Avenue just after 1:30 a.m., Police Chief Thomas Gallagher said. After the machine operator removed the engine, police reversed the blade and removed him, Gallagher said. Members of the Ridgefield Volunteer Ambulance Corps took him to Hackensack University Medical Center. Biazzo, w…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Worker Falls 35 Feet From Ladder In Hawthorne Worker Falls 35 Feet From Ladder In Hawthorne
Worker Falls 35 Feet From Ladder In Hawthorne A worker was hospitalized Tuesday after falling 35 feet from a ladder onto a secondary roof at an industrial building in Hawthorne. Members of Hawthorne Engine Companies #3 and #4 and Rescue Company #5 got the victim onto a backboard before carrying him down three flights inside the Loretto Avenue building in a basket stretcher. A paramedic team from The Valley Hospital assisted Hawthorne EMS with patient evaluation and treatment.  The victim was transported to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center. His condition couldn't immediately be determined. Boyd A. Loving contributed to this accoun…

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by Jerry DeMarco