Crane ship crash leads to fatal accident: Report

Pictured previously the size of the semi-submersible crane ship is evident (Peter Barker)

Strong winds and poor communication led in part to a worker’s death after a crane ship crashed into a jack-up rig at Rotterdam, the Dutch Safety Board has found.

The report follows an allision between a semi-submersible crane ship and a jack-up drilling rig, when a welder on the jack-up scaffolding became trapped, fell into the sea and vanished for weeks before his body was found.

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