{"id":343469,"date":"2026-09-11T01:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T01:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/343469\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T01:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T01:55:15","slug":"worker-found-dead-after-apparent-explosion-on-petroleum-barge-in-staten-island-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/343469\/","title":{"rendered":"Worker found dead after apparent explosion on petroleum barge in Staten Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STATEN ISLAND, New York (TNND)  \u2014 A worker was found dead after an apparent explosion on a barge on Staten Island on Thursday, according to law enforcement officials. All other workers have been accounted for.<\/p>\n<p>The apparent explosion took place on a petroleum barge named Casablanca at 3249 Richmond Terrace just after 2:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters have responded with a fuel unit and will drain excess petroleum from the rest of the damaged container.<\/p>\n<p>No further details have been provided so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, New York (TNND) \u2014 A worker was found dead after an apparent explosion on a barge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-343469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343469","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=343469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}