With more than 44 years of experience, Alan Bates, Maintenance Supervisor, Cooper Consolidated, is responsible for keeping the company's cranes afloat with booms in the air.
In October a U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) crew was performing maintenance at a navigational aid on the bank of the Mississippi River across from Cooper Consolidated’s Darrow fleet and Mile 175 when they discovered a Civil War era cannonball in the mud.
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