Weld failure on mooring equipment led to barge smashing fishing pier

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It was the failure of a weld that led to a barge breaking loose from its mooring and badly damaging a pier in Hampton, Virginia, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has said in a Marine Accident Brief. Before dawn on November 17th 2019, in stormy weather, construction barge YD 71 broke...

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