Tarver v. Bo-Mac Contractors, Inc.

Respondent Bo-Mac Contractors, Inc. (“Bo-Mac”) agreed to build two barge slips on vacant, dry land near the intracoastal waterway in Carlyss, Louisiana. Petitioner Bret Tarver, a welder hired by Bo-Mac, was seriously injured during the construction project. While working on the land side of the excavation, an 80-foot beam came loose and pinned Tarver to construction scaffolding. At the time of Tarver’s injury, the construction site had been cleared and the slip holes had been excavated, but the land between the holes and the waterway had not yet been removed. At some point after the injury,…