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NTSB issues report on collision between two towboats and barges in Lower Mississippi River

NTSB issued its investigation of the 2 September 2015 collision between two towboats and barges. The towboat P. B. Shah was upbound pushing 24 barges on the Lower Mississippi River at mile marker (mm) 937, near Columbus, Kentucky, when two of its barges collided with two of four barges being pushed downbound by the towboat Dewey R. No one was injured; however, the accident resulted in the discharge of 120,000 gallons of clarified slurry oil into the river and an estimated $1.1 million in damages.

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