Synergy Marine Group, company involved in Baltimore bridge collapse, had three deadly incidents since 2018

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

Synergy Marine Group, the Singapore-based company that owns the ship that crashed and collapsed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge is under investigation again.

Synergy ships have been involved in at least three deadly incidents since 2018, according to multiple statements.

In 2018, a person on board a Synergy-owned boat in Australia was killed in an accident involving the ship's elevator. The Australian Transportation Safety Bureau's director said in a statement that many accidents like this are caused by "failure to apply existing safety management procedures."

A year later, an officer on a Synergy ship in Singapore went missing, assumed to have fallen overboard while cleaning in 2019. A report stated that if a risk assessment had been completed before the officer started working the "appropriate level of safety measures would have been included."

The most recent deadly incident before the Baltimore Bridge collapse came in 2023, when a sailor was killed when a Synergy Managed tanker crashed into a dredging ship in the Philippines causing it to capsize, according to an incident report from the Philippines Coast Guard.

Singapore has announced plans to open its own investigation into the Dali, the ship involved in the Baltimore Bridge collapse.