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Marine Construction Industry

Let’s Talk Safety: Concrete Form Breaks, Falls into Lake  

Employees #1 through #3 were supervising the pouring of concrete into a 50-foot-tall steel form for the construction of a 72-inch-diameter column

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Let’s Talk Safety: Diver Loses Strength in Cold Water  

Employee #1 was scuba diving with a buddy diver during a winter to locate anchors that hold ice booms in a river.

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Mangalore Coastal Protection Project, Mangalore, Karnataka, India

DVP Infra Projects Pvt, Ltd.; Geometry Construction Co.; Trimble   Customer Profile:   DVP Infra Projects Pvt Ltd. is a civil contractor

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Preventing Struck-by Injuries in Marine Construction

The following guide is compiled from publications by OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and from the “NIOSH Science Blog” on

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Introduction to Composite Materials

By Carl ZwebenZweben Consulting, Devon, Penn. The development of composite materials as well as the related design and manufacturing technologies is one

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Graphene –A Semi-Metal of the Future

Graphene is an allotrope of carbon consisting of a single layer of atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice. The name is derived

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ECOncrete® blocks replacing rock riprap in marine construction

Israeli company ECOncrete is developing a patented technology called ECOncrete® that would, in its own words, ‘enable responsible building underwater‘ and meet

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Collision between Offshore Supply Vessel Cheramie Bo Truc No 22 and Articulated Tug and Barge Mariya Moran/Texas

NTSB Accident Brief On November 14, 2019, about 0415 local time, the offshore supply vessel Cheramie Bo Truc No 22 was outbound

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Composite Pile Sleeves for a Utility Crossing in Key West, Fla.

A barge struck a utility crossing in the Florida Keys in late 2020. The crossing—from Key West to Fleming Key—was located within

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Bridge Replacement Underway in Elizabethtown, N.C.

Last August, Smith-Rowe LLC, a contractor in Mt. Airy, N.C., began demolishing the two bridges that carry U.S. 701 over the Cape

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Hopper Barge and Tug Capsize, One Drowned  

Employee #1 had accessed a hopper barge to release a cable that had been used to support the barge on the starboard

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Long track record of SFT Americas and the Georgia Ports Authority

SFT and Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) have been business partners for decades and established a long-term, proven track record. GPA is running

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Millwall Outer Dock, London, U.K.

Land & Water Group, Guilford, U.K.  Millwall Outer Dock forms part of the 110-acre West India and Millwall Dock system on the

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Vietnamese deep seaport, Gemalink, equipped with SFT cone fender systems and bollards  

In early 2021, the Gemadept shipping company opened a new terminal in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province, Vietnam. The province is located on

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Workers Shearing Concrete Pile Miscommunicate with Crane Operator; One Dead, One Injured  

Employees #1 and #2 and a crane operator were shearing prestressed, reinforced precast 40-foot pilings that had been driven as building supports

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Excerpts from the Coast Guard Bulletin, 1939-42

Volume 1, Number 1, July 1939   BIDS FOR NEW TENDERS OPENED   Bids for the construction of one, two, or three

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