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2 Die After Falling in Ship’s Tank, 1 Survives

  •  A supervisor and another worker died after they entered a ship’s ballast tank and collapsed in the confined space.
  • The supervisor had entered the ballast tank of a dredging vessel last Wednesday (May 19) to inspect it, without wearing appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) or checking whether it was safe.
  • Some time after he collapsed, a second worker went into the tank to rescue him, but he also passed out, said the Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Council in a bulletin.

A recent...

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Four bodies recovered following Corpus Christi channel fire

The bodies of all four dredging vessel crew members killed in Friday’s fire in the ship channel at the Port of Corpus Christi in Texas have been recovered. 

The Coast Guard said two bodies were found when a portion of the Waymon L. Boyd was recovered from the channel Monday. Two others were recovered Saturday. 

“We can confirm that all four missing crewmen have been recovered,” Orion Marine Group CEO Mark Stauffer said in a statement Monday afternoon. “We are grateful to the U.S. Coast Guard, the...

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Crew members missing after dredging vessel fire in Texas

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for four missing crew members from a dredging vessel that caught fire Friday in the Port of Corpus Christi shipping canal in Texas.

The fire aboard the Waymon L. Boyd was reported at 8:12 a.m. Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi launched an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter and hoisted two injured crew members to safety and transferred them to a local hospital.

The Coast Guard also responded with two Station Port Aransas 45-foot response boats as well as the cutters...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/crew-members-missing-after-dredging-vessel-fire-in-texas