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Moments later, Keith Dishman, who had already left the facility at the end of Rosem ont Avenue for the day, headed back. "A guy is drowning in the railroad tracks!" he shouted.
It did not make sense to Ed Radcliff or Ken McWhorter or any of the other men who ran toward a green ribbon of twisted steel. A man lay beneath a platform pinned in place by a 30- to 40- foot ladder. A second man was in a lift a few feet away, surrounded by at least 5 feet of dark liquid.
The liquid was everywhere, smelling faintly of ammonia and gasoline, and nobody knew what it was. They waded in. Beyond them, concrete blocks and fencing and other debris blocked the road.
Minutes would pass before the employees of Oceaneering, a Navy contractor, realized what had happened: A 35-foot-high tank owned by Allied Terminals had collapsed, spilling 2 million gallons of liquid fertilizer.
More than a dozen men hefted the steel ladder off the trapped man who moaned and complained of a hurt arm. Radcliff and three others pushed through the spill, pulling the second injured man from the lift.
Jeff Bauguess of Oceaneering cleared the road with a forklift, allowing others to carry one injured man and drive the second one 400 feet to waiting ambulances. An Allied Terminals official said they are expected to recover.
Many of those who rushed to help the men they did not know sat around a table at the 12-acre Oceaneering facility Saturday. Some are former Navy, like McWhorter, a diver who worked rescue and recovery missions for years. They are used to crises. They sometimes work 12-hour shifts six or seven days a week. They respond often to the unexpected, and they do it as a team.
"Everybody was doing something," Radcliff said. "Everybody."
He wore a company T-shirt with a picture of a ship and the words: Excellence Under Pressure.
Kristin Davis, (757) 222-5555, kristin.davis@pilotonline.com
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