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Bodies of Four Seamen Killed in Corpus Christi Explosion Recovered The Corpus Christi Caller-Times is reporting that the U.S. Coast Guard and private salvage drivers have recovered the bodies of all four seamen killed in last Friday’s (August 21st) sinking of the dredging vessel Waymon L. Boyd. The Boyd was lost after it struck an underwater pipeline near the intersection of Lantana and Up River Road, caught fire, and sank in the adjacent shipping channel. The accident occurred shortly before…

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…

Officials of the Sea Princess, a Princess Cruises cruise ship, found evidence of a third norovirus aboard, prompting a “prolonged and intensive sanitization” before the ship set sail from San Francisco on a 10-day Alaska sailing. The cleanup was reportedly thorough and extensive, delaying the departure of the ship by more than five hours last week. According to reports, it was too soon to tell if the illness had been contained or if any were sickened by the contamination. Reports…

An unidentified female dockworker at the busy Port of Oakland, CA, who had just finished her night shift and was leaving the dock, was run over and lost both of her legs, reports say. The accident occurred while the shifts were changing at the same time heavy machinery used to hoist the shipping containers and move them around the docks also were also moving around, reports say. The Ports America company, which apparently reconfigured the terminal in January 2010 with…