LONGVIEW, Washington (From The Daily News) -- The longshoreman injured while working on a ship at Weyerhaeuser Co. log dock last week died in a Portland hospital Saturday, according to several sources.

Jimmy Meadows Jr. had been hired by S.S.A. Pacific to load logs, but he was not a Weyerhaeuser employee.

"Jimmy will be in our hearts and thoughts and memories," Joe Abram, S.S.A. general manager, said in a prepared statement. "S.S.A. Pacific is very sorry for the loss to his family, as he was a well-respected member of our workforce and the ILWU," Abram said, referencing the International Longshore and Warehouse Union of which Meadows had been a member.

A Facebook post by ILWU member Kyle Mackey included this tribute to Meadows: "When I was 16 years old, after months of looking for a job, a friend of my dad's helped land me the first job I ever had. His name was Jimmie Meadows. I'd like to think that I thanked him for this a few years later when I started to see him down on the docks, and I've been racking my terrible memory trying to recall that conversation ... Jimmie always had a smile on his face and an air of positivity about him. ... He was programmed to be one of the toughest, hardest working guys on the job. Always pushing to get the job done as fast as possible.

"My dad said it best I think, 'I'd rather have 10 Jimmie Meadows than some of these new guys that don't care about protecting the job.' I will always respect and remember these things," the post said.

Meadows died at Oregon Health and Science University Hospital. The official cause of death and other details still were not available Monday.