The Region - News from July 12, 1987

Technical experts were being brought in from the East Coast and Europe to help investigate the cause of a crane accident Friday that killed six workers when a steel basket carrying 12 men plunged about 30 feet onto the deck of a Navy ship in San Diego. A vice president of the National Steel & Shipbuilding Co., the company overhauling the ship, said the experts will probably inspect the crane on Tuesday or Wednesday. Four men injured in the incident were still hospitalized. Two were listed in critical condition, and the other two were expected to be released soon.