June 26, 2014

The incident at VT Halter resulted in two employees being hospitalized at the University of
South Alabama hospital in Mobile. The employees are in critical conditions. Three other
employees were injured when they were running away from the incident. The three employees
were treated and released from a local hOSpital in Pascagoula.

The company was using two Manitowoc cranes to move a bow section of a vessel. The bow
section weighed 252 tons. The job was going to require the bow section to be stood up with the
pointed end in a downward position. Each of the Manitowoc 16000 crawler cranes were rated for
440 tons. The two cranes were going to move the bow to the south. One crane was to the north
of the load the other crane was to the south of the load. The cranes were new. The cranes were
only 2 years old.

The rear section of north crane started rising up. The boom of the north crane fell on a tool room
in a north production building. The boom broke at the cab. is in
critical condition. An employee in the tool room is in critical condition.

The south crane was using lug to secure the crane to the deck. The lug broke. The crane boom
and load block whipped to the south. The crane was not damaged. No employee was injured by
this crane.

Manitowoc plan to have representatives on site tomorrow. Each of the cranes had data loggers.
The data loggers will have to be returned to Wisconsin to download the data. The data loggers
should provide information on the cranes status and what may have caused the failure.

The company had a pre-lift meeting prior to the lift procedure. The company plans required each
crane to lift 126 tons.

The Jackson area of?ce is requesting assisting form the regional of?ce or nation of?ce to assist
in this investigation.

June 27, 2014

The CSHO has copies of crane inspections records.

sin an induced coma in a Mobile hospital. The doctors have
removed his right eye. He also had surgery to remove pressure on his brain.

'as the employee injured in the tool room. He was having surgery one leg.
Jerfonned the calculations and drawing for moving the load.

The CSHO interviewed one of the riggers moving the load.

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 Halter was moving the bow section for Horn Beck supply boat no. C-200. The bow section
weighed 400 tons.

vere the other employees treated and
released from a local hospital.

Matthew Guy is the general counsel representing V. T. Halter Marine, Inc. his cell telephone

number is .-le is with the New Orleans law ?rm of Bland Partners Attorneys at
Law. .

A surveillance camera captured a video of the accident. The company will provide a copy of the
video to OSHA. The ?le was too large to email. The video will be place on ajump drive and be
given to the CSHO. The video show the two cranes moving the load together. The south crane
moved south. The north crane was being repositioned or relined to travel south when the angle of
the load line increase leading to the crane incident. The video also indicated there may have been
communication issues between the riggers and the crane operators.

Haig Engineering is on site coordinating the incident investigation for V. T. Halter.

Haig Engineering requested permission to move the cab of the north crane. l-laig was concerned
the crane in its current state will result in hydraulic and diesel hosed leaking ?uid. l-Iaig
Engineering was bringing in a contractor from Texas to upright the crane cab. Haig Engineering
estimated it will take one to two days to upright the crane cab. JAO OSHA denied the request.
JAO informed Haig Engineering to keep the crane cab in its current position until national and
regional OSHA representatives arrived Monday or Tuesday.

There was a conference call this morning with national office, regional of?ce, of?ce of public

affairs, regional solicitor office, Jackson area office and the compliance of?cer.

Everyone was updated on the status of the inspection. national of?ce and
regional of?ce will travel to the incident site next Monday to provide engineering

support. Angela Donaldson, solicitor will travel to the site Monday to assist with interviews of
management employees.

June 30, 2014

Manitowoc representatives arrived on site Friday aftemoon. Manitowoc representatives will
delay removing the data loggers until Tuesday awaiting the arrival of OSHA representatives.

No temporary workers were involved in the crane incident. The company has temporary workers
working at other locations in the facility.

Evidence and Site Control Agreement was faxed and emailed to corporate safety director on
Friday.

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