Bridge · from the US Coast Guard investigation record

CHESTER BRIDGE

The vessels recorded in 7 Coast Guard casualty investigations naming this bridge, 2011–2022: 17 vessel mentions, 17 hulls with a page on Maury.

Every investigation naming this structure

Vessel, with role as recorded	Date	Classification	Structure status, as recorded	Property damage recorded	People
CBC 7030 Involved in a Marine Casualty LIZ SLOSS Involved in a Marine Casualty	2022-08-15	Routine	Undamaged - Operational	$60,000	none recorded
GM 5007 Involved in a Marine Casualty SEKCO Involved in a Marine Casualty KEVIN CONWAY Involved in a Marine Investigation (non-casualty)	2020-06-04	Routine	Undamaged - Operational	$50,000	none recorded
LNA 179B Involved in a Marine Casualty LNA 204R Involved in a Marine Casualty JAKE HUFFTY Transiting Vicinity of Primary Subject KASKASKIA WARRIOR Transiting Vicinity of Primary Subject	2019-05-11	Routine	Undamaged - Operational	$20,000	none recorded
SPBL 50 Involved in a Marine Casualty STONE STRAIT Involved in a Marine Casualty	2016-05-05	Routine	Undamaged - Operational	$75,000	none recorded
MEM 5085 Involved in a Marine Casualty ACL 9973B Involved in a Marine Investigation (non-casualty)	2015-12-26	Routine	Undamaged - Operational	$12,000	none recorded
HELEN MERRILL Involved in a Marine Casualty WTC 3007 Involved in a Marine Casualty	2012-04-12	Routine	Undamaged - Operational	—	none recorded
ACBL 335X Involved in a Marine Casualty JOE BOBZIEN Involved in a Marine Casualty	2011-07-11	Routine · serious marine incident	Undamaged - Operational	$120,000	none recorded

A vessel’s role is the Coast Guard’s word for how it was involved, and it is shown exactly as recorded: a vessel “sighted near” an incident is not a striking vessel, and involvement is not fault. Where an investigation records anyone dead, injured or missing, only the structured fields are shown and the narrative is withheld. Property damage is the total the investigation recorded, in dollars of the year, never adjusted. Vessel names link to the hull’s page where Maury publishes one; an unlinked name is a hull Maury holds and does not publish, or one it does not hold.

Investigations recorded, by year

Year	Investigations recorded
2011	1
2012	1
2015	1
2016	1
2019	1
2020	1
2022	1

A count of investigation records that name this structure. It is not a rate: the Coast Guard’s record of incidents is denser in some years and districts than others (coverage), and the record for 1991 onward is the one Maury holds.

Identity

Recorded as

CHESTER BRIDGE

Also recorded as

—

Type

Bridge

Coast Guard unit

USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Sector Upper Mississippi River; Marine Safety Unit Paducah

Maury structure id

str-7ecbda367c

One recorded name under one Coast Guard unit. A grouping by name may include more than one structure.

Federal bridge record

NBI structure number079600100000000 (IL)

Owner, as classed by FHWAState highway agency

Facility carriedILL 150

Feature crossedMISS RIV/FAU 9416

Location, as recordedAT CHESTER - MoDOT

Year built1942

Navigation vertical clearance19.5 m (64.0 ft)

Navigation horizontal clearance198.1 m (649.9 ft)

Minimum navigation vertical clearancenot recorded in the inventory

National Bridge Inventory 2024, Federal Highway Administration, as served. Match: 2 navigation-controlled NBI crossings within 2 km; the one sharing a name token with the recorded name, 0.08 km from the recorded position. Owner is FHWA’s owner class, not a name.

What this page is not

A fact about a structure, not a judgement about it or about anyone who owns it. Maury publishes no score, rating or ranking for a structure, and no count or comparison for a bridge owner. A structure with no page has no recorded involvement in the ranges Maury holds; that is not “never struck”. Source: US Coast Guard Incident Investigation Reports through 13 September 2026; National Bridge Inventory where matched. Coverage and known gaps.