Langfitt v. Federal Marine Terminals, Inc.

TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

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In December 2007, Bruce Langfitt was employed full time by Able Body Temporary Services, Inc. (“Able Body”), 1 a labor broker in the business of furnishing its day-laborer employees to clients on a temporary basis. On December 13, Able Body supplied Langfitt and other employees to Federal Marine Terminals, Inc. (“FMT”), a company that operates longshoring facilities on the Florida coast, to assist in FMT’s loading of a cargo ship. Soon after Langfitt began the longshoring services on behalf of FMT, however, a heavy piece of cargo being loaded into the ship’s hold fell…