$467,500 Settlement

Plaintiff an able bodied seaman on research vessel, R/V OCEANUS, and injured himself when walking down the gangway from the pier onto the ship’s lower deck. The plaintiff was walking on the gangway when the gangway shifted and the plaintiff stumbled and fell forward. Negligence of plaintiff’s employer and the unseaworthiness of the vessel focused on not properly securing the gangway to the vessel. The pier in that the gangway would shift and the wheels of the gangway were not flush to the deck of the vessel, which would then cause the rope side rails to become slack/loose. Plaintiff was able to return back to work but not a research vessel.