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The number of people killed in a catastrophic Fort Worth highway accident has climbed to six as of Thursday night, the same day over 130 vehicles violently collided on Interstate 35. Dozens of people were evacuated to area hospitals, a considerable number of individuals in critical condition. Rush to Rescue Fort Worth Highway Accident Victims As of later in the day on Thursday, emergency personnel were still extracted people from the entangled wreckage of cars, SUVs, semi-trucks, and other vehicles….

Deadly Bayport Container Terminal Crane Accident Kills Worker A worker at the Bayport Container Terminal was killed in an incident involving a crane before dawn on Friday morning. Although the investigation into his death has only begun, the terminal worker appears to have been crushed or otherwise fatally injured in a vehicle he operated during the process of loading a container onto a ship. The victim has not been identified pending notification of his family members. The man was operating…

Accident at Pasadena (TX) Shipping Terminal Leaves Worker Dead KXXV-TV has reported that a worker at the Bayport Container Terminal in the Houston suburb of Pasadena. The details of the accident are not yet available, and the following reconstruction is based on news media coverage of the accident. On the morning of Friday, February 21st an unidentified worker at the Bayport Container Terminal was operating a truck known as a “mule” to deliver loaded shipping containers from a warehouse to…

The employers of a dockworker’s family, Virginia International Terminals Inc., has agreed to pay that family $500,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the surviving family members of a port worker killed at Portsmouth Marine Terminal in 2007, reports say. The estate of Vernon Leroy White Jr. alleged negligence on the part of Virginia International Terminals and two workers after White was crushed to death when a cargo container crushed him. White, 42, was survived by a son and daughter,…