Oil Cleanup Worker Killed in Ship Accident
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From Associated Press
ANCHORAGE — A worker on a ship helping clean up the nation’s worst oil spill was killed in an elevator accident Monday, the Coast Guard said.
The death occurred aboard the Coastal Star, a headquarters ship anchored in Northwest Bay on Eleanor Island in Prince William Sound, about 55 miles southwest of Valdez, Coast Guard Chief Mark Kennedy said in Valdez.
A food preparation worker aboard the vessel was reported missing for about an hour, Kennedy said.
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