Employee dies in Fernandina Beach crane accident
by: Kristen Dressel Updated: Jul 15, 2016 - 11:41 PM
NASSAU COUNTY, Fla. —
A Kinder Morgan employee died Friday in a crane accident at the Kinder Morgan Nassau Terminal in Fernandina Beach, according to police.
The Fernandina Beach Police Department said the employee was in a crane making repairs to it when the cab separated and fell to the ground, police said.
The employee, Timothy Dubberly, 58, died in the fall. Dubberly was an electrician with the company.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has been notified, and Kinder Morgan is investigating the incident.
A statement was released by the company:
"It is with great sadness that we must report the Kinder Morgan family suffered a fatality this morning involving a company employee at the Kinder Morgan Nassau Terminal at Fernandina Beach, Florida.
Following notifications of next of kin, the employee has been identified as Timothy Dubberly, 58, an electrician at the facility. Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife and family. The company is providing grief counselors for employees at the terminal and also seeing to the needs of Mr. Dubberly’s family.
Following the incident, regulatory notifications were made, and the company has initiated an investigation."
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Fernandina Beach port employee killed in Friday accident
By Dan Scanlan Fri, Jul 15, 2016 @ 12:38 pm | updated Fri, Jul 15, 2016 @ 2:09 pm
Mary Hurst/file photo
This Times-Union file photo shows a view of the Port of Fernandina. An employee was killed in an industrial accident involving a crane at the port on Friday.
A 58-year-old employee was killed in an industrial accident involving a crane at the Port of Fernandina on Friday morning, according to Fire Chief Harvey Silcox.
The maintenance man was working on the crane at the Kinder Morgan Nassau Terminal on North 3rd Street when the accident occurred, Silcox said.
“It appears maybe a cable broke and caused the operations cab to fall,” he said.
The man fell about 100 feet and was dead when rescue workers got to him at about 9:30 a.m., Silcox said.
Port officials identified the man as employee Timothy Dubberly, 58, and said he was doing electrical work on the crane in a statement about the accident.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife and family,” the statement read. “The company is providing grief counselors for employees at the terminal and also seeing to the needs of Mr. Dubberly’s family.
The port is operated by Nassau Terminals, LLC, a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan, under a long-term contract with the Ocean Highway and Port Authority. Port officials said the company has initiated an investigation, while the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration staff will be investigating as well, according to our news partner, First Coast News.