The Oakland Tribune has detailed the safety procedures that longshore workers fought for to protect workers and the community from potentially explosive containers that were serviced in Vietnam with counterfeit coolant:
A handful of clerks from ILWU Local 34 and two mechanics have been working practically nonstop inside a second-floor room at the Pacific Marine Association training facility on Fallon Street to identify and isolate containers that had motors serviced during stops in Vietnam.
And they will continue poring over the lists until they can be sure the danger no longer exists.
“These reefers are still moving all over the world,” said Richard Mead, president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10.