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The accident happened shortly before 10 a.m. after a tugboat operator pushing two barges lost control of them, said David Flores, a bridge superintendent with the Galveston County Navigation District.
Early estimates indicate up to 2,000 gallons of oil may have spilled into surrounding waters when a barge carrying fuel broke free from a tugboat and slammed into a bridge near Galveston, Texas ...
A barge slammed into a bridge in Galveston on Wednesday, spilling oil into the bay and forcing a shutdown of the Texas span, officials said, in the latest accident involving prominent U.S ...
Prior to the derailment, a barge pushed by the towboat Mauvilla (owned and operated by Warrior and Gulf Navigation of Chickasaw, Alabama) made a wrong turn on the Mobile River and entered the Big Bayou Canot, a channel of water closed to commercial boat traffic [2] and crossed by a CSX Transportation rail bridge.
The I-40 bridge disaster was a bridge collapse that occurred southeast of Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, United States at 7:45 a.m. on May 26, 2002.Freight barges being transported on the Arkansas River collided with a pier supporting the Interstate 40 road bridge crossing the river.
Bouchard No. 120, the barge involved in the incident, was a tank barge operated by Bouchard Transportation.The company was contracted to supply oil to a local power plant, Mirant Power Generating Facility in Sandwich, Massachusetts, with Bouchard No. 120 delivering oil on the day of the incident.
Twenty-six barges loaded mostly with dry cargo broke loose from a Pittsburgh marina late Friday night and floated uncontrollably down the Ohio River, causing extensive damage to neighboring docks ...
The next day, the first work vessel used the alternate channel: a tugboat pushing a fuel barge to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. A second channel was opened the next day, as work continued on a third channel. [219] [220] On April 7, salvage crews began to remove containers from Dali.