{"id":266053,"date":"2026-05-10T23:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T23:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/266053\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T23:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T23:06:07","slug":"shipyard-worker-killed-in-mishap-at-jacksonvilles-bae-facility-company-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/266053\/","title":{"rendered":"Shipyard worker killed in mishap at Jacksonville&#8217;s BAE facility, company says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A BAE spokesperson said the mishap occurred Saturday, May 9, and the company is still looking into the cause of the accident.<\/p>\n<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A shipyard worker was killed Saturday in a workplace mishap while performing maintenance on heavy equipment at Jacksonville&#8217;s BAE Systems shipyard near Mayport, a company spokesperson told First Coast News.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson said the worker was killed while performing maintenance Saturday on a self-propelled modular transporter (SPMT) at the BAE facility on Heckscher Drive. The SPMT is a piece of heavy equipment used to move ships from just outside of the water to further onshore facilities in the shipyard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our deepest condolences are with the employee\u2019s family, loved ones, and coworkers,&#8221; The BAE official said. &#8220;The safety of our employees remains our top priority. We will continue to investigate the cause of this tragic accident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. First Coast News will update this article with more information as it becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A BAE spokesperson said the mishap occurred Saturday, May 9, and the company is still looking into the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-266053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}