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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2015
Protest: Tongue Point’s operations assessed each year
is con¿ dent it will soon get a
waiver from the labor depart-
ment, which owns the boat,
to give Tumbarello until the
end of January 2017 to get the
proper licensing.
Shillinger said he has full
con¿ dence in the seaman-
ship staff and the education
students are getting. Tongue
Point has the only Job Corps
seamanship program in the
country and is one of the most
valuable trades it offers, as far
as income after graduation.
Continued from Page 1A
“Throughout my employ-
ment, I reported my safety
concerns to my supervisors
and managers,” Jones said in
both her complaints. “I report-
ed malfunctioning equipment,
an unlicensed supervisor op-
erating boats, and proper pro-
cedures not being followed,
creating unsafe environments
and injuries.”
In a report last month to
the U.S. Department of Labor,
which oversees Job Corps,
Vice President Dean Hoff-
man of the western region of
Management and Training
Corp. said the company in-
vestigated 17 different allega-
tions by Jones, interviewing
most students and staff in the
seamanship program. The re-
port found almost all of her
allegations unfounded, except
for some minor issues. In-
vestigators recommended an
annual plan for replacement
of supplies, and noted several
log booN entries not ¿ lled out
completely.
Hoffman said the corpora-
tion assesses Tongue Point’s
operations each year. He added
that a fuller assessment would
be conducted in the future, with
a person speci¿ cally assigned
to the seamanship program.
As a follow-up to the investi-
gation, he said, the corporation
will review the ¿ nances of the
program in six months to en-
sure needs are being met.
Right of way
Daily Astorian/File Photo
The Tongue Point Job Corps buoy tender Ironwood navigates downstream toward the Columbia River bar.
No license, no problem
Len Tumbarello, a former
second-in-command of the
U.S. Coast Guard’s Sector
Columbia River who retired
shortly before taking the helm
of Tongue Point’s seamanship
program in summer 2013, has
made appearances in both
Jones’ and Ferguson’s com-
plaints.
Upon his hiring, Tumbarel-
lo said he needed more at-sea
time and to take some tests
to get the proper merchant
mariner’s license to operate
the Ironwood, a former Coast
Guard buoy tender used as a
seamanship training vessel.
He still lacks the proper li-
cense.
But the corporation’s re-
port found Tumbarello is not
required to be a licensed. Oth-
er licensed captains are on
board when the Ironwood is
underway, and an instructor in
the program recently obtained
the proper license.
Kim Shillinger, the direc-
tor of Tongue Point, said the
center was lucky to get Tum-
barello, who has a master’s
in education and a 26-year
history with the Coast Guard.
Shillinger said Tongue Point
One particularly stinging
allegation surrounded a minor
collision between the Iron-
wood and the ¿ shing boat Miss
Emily near Point Adams in
July. The collision was logged
with the Coast Guard, which
declined to investigate because
of the minor nature of the dam-
age.
The vessel’s captain, Thom-
as Lloyd, said the Ironwood
ran into and scraped his out-
rigger while he was towing
another ¿ shing vessel upriver.
In his report, Hoffman said the
corporation maintains the Iron-
wood was not at fault based on
navigation regulations, video
of the accident and radio con-
versations during the incident
recorded by the Coast Guard.
Hoffman said the corpora-
tion’s risk assessment depart-
ment is conducting a joint in-
vestigation with the company’s
insurer.
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