Johnson v. Oil Transport Co.

AINSWORTH, Circuit Judge:

This is a suit in admiralty by a shore-based shipyard worker for damages for personal injuries against a shipowner, growing out of the servicing and repairing of a vessel in dry dock. James Johnson, an experienced shipyard sandblaster, was injured in a fall to the floor of a dry dock from a scaffolding on which he was standing while sandblasting the outside hull of the M/V FLYING A, which was out of the water, preparatory to the vessel’s being painted. The scaffolding, which was made up of various connecting metal sections, had been rented by appellant’s employer,…