Browning v. B. F. Diamond Construction Co.

Banke, Judge.

The plaintiff is the widow of an employee who was killed while working for the defendant as a supervisor on a bridge construction project. The bridge was to span navigable waters near Destín, Florida. The death occurred on a “bridge footing” or “pier” made of concrete and supported by pilings driven into the riverbed. The decedent was supervising the placement of two reinforced steel bar cages on top of the pier when a tug used in the operation ran into a construction barge. The construction barge in turn hit a floating crane barge, causing a guy rope to break and the steel bar…