CD CORPORATION

Employee is killed in fall on barge

At 10:45 a.m. on August 27, 2015, Employee #1, a dock laborer, was closing sections of a rolling cover on an empty dry bulk cargo barge. The employee attached a cable to the cover at the edge of section one, to be pulled closed with an excavator. Employee #1 positioned himself at the opposite end of section two and crouched down. While the excavator operator pulled on the cover, the operator caught a glimpse of the employee standing up out of the corner of his eye. As sections one and two of the rolling cover came together, the forward movement caused a jolt from steel on steel and Employee #1 became airborne, fell backwards and was found lying on the inside floor of the barge, face down, 18 feet below the cover. Employee #1 sustained fractures of the head and torso, and was killed.