{"id":107612,"date":"2026-01-21T19:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/107612\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T19:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:55:14","slug":"worker-found-dead-in-giant-container-of-mineral-oil-in-linden-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/107612\/","title":{"rendered":"Worker found dead in giant container of mineral oil in Linden, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"PSJWUNHV2NATLOS2SCLBWUWPHI\">A sub-contractor working at a Linden property Monday was found dead inside a large container of mineral oil, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"S7N3W7HX4JE6XM7C6BDHSO6IFE\">Police were called shortly before 2 p.m. to the corner of Park and Brunswick avenues and found the 71-year-old Iselin man dead inside the bulk liquid container, according to a statement from the Linden Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"RFNHYCD43NAVHMNFKOJBMSLRDM\">Detectives said the man was on top of the container when he accidentally fell inside while working.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"4PKFRSQQ7ZH4JFAL3YRNWAAK6A\">At the time of the incident, the 6,000-gallon container was being filled with mineral oil, a highly refined petroleum-derived liquid, the police department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"MSXZROB6KBCJLMAMSNCXUS2S54\">The man was retrieved from the container by personnel from the Bayway and Linden Fire Departments and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"JMVGVTLB6BGRDDZ422NDYH4KK4\">The incident is under investigation by the department and OSHA, authorities said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sub-contractor working at a Linden property Monday was found dead inside a large container of mineral oil,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-107612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}