Archive of: Injuries / Fatalities

	Title	Issue
	Health problems may have prompted pilot's fatal ladder fall A federal pilot who died in a fall from a Jacob's ladder off the Delaware coast was "severely overweight" and was taking several medications for cardiovascular ailments, the U.S. Coast Guard said in an investigative report Dom Yanchunas	September 2009
	Staten Island ferry loses power, injuring 17 during hard landing A Staten Island ferry slammed into its slip injuring 17 after all of its motor-drive transformers failed and the vessel lost propulsion Dom Yanchunas	September 2009
	Cargo surveyor dies when basket carrying him between ships falls into Pacific Ocean Dom Yanchunas	August 2009
	Mechanic, fearing collision with bulk ship, leaps from disabled small boat and drowns Dom Yanchunas	August 2009
	Coast Guard issues safety alert to mariners in response to electrocution of third engineer Dom Yanchunas	August 2009
	Tug captain who fell overboard unnoticed by his crew saved after 70 minutes in water Michel Drouin	May 2009
	New deck hand who was about to quit remains missing Dom Yanchunas	May 2009
	Deck hand suffers broken leg after falling from ladder Rich Miller	May 2009
	Towboat deck hand in Alabama dies after falling overboard during a smoking break Dom Yanchunas	May 2009
	Coast Guard medevacs three mariners from ship hit by rogue wave Dom Yanchunas	May 2009