Collision between Dewey R Tow and P. B. Shah Tow

What Happened

On September 2, 2015, at 1959 central daylight time, the uninspected towing vessel 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 uninspected towing vessel 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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