Arturo L Fernandez was a 56-year-old seaman and engineer. One day he was working aboard a pipe-laying derrick vessel. He was testing to prove the lifting capabilities of a crane on the vessel. At the time, pad eyes had been placed on a test barge to provide adequthe right balance for the test. A pad eye is a device that a line runs through, or provides an attachment point. It usually is bolted or welded to the deck or hull of a boat. At the same time, the boat had equalizer blcoks to connect the pad eyes on the lift barge to the … [Read more...]
Mining Company fined $900,000 for Deadly Explosion
September 15, 2011 by
Federal Officials say a Judge in Pennsylvania ruled a mining Company in Pennsylvania must pay $900,000 in fines for a explosion that killed a miner and resulted in criminal charges against three others. The Department of Labor fines against the company are from a settlement order signed in the beginning of August. The lawsuit came from a methane explosion that killed one miner at the Buck Mountain Mine in 2006. The Mine Safety and health Administration found that the miner was killed when methane exploded in a under ventilated … [Read more...]
