Valladolid v. Pacific Operations Offshore, LLP

SELNA, District Judge:

In this case, we consider whether an employee must be injured on the outer continental shelf to be eligible for workers’ compensation benefits under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (“OCSLA”), 43 U.S.C. § 1331 et seq. The two other circuits that have considered this question have reached conflicting conclusions.

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Decedent Juan Valladolid worked for Pacific Operations Offshore as a roustabout, stationed primarily on one of Pacific Operations’s two offshore drilling platforms. He was killed, however, on the grounds of Pacific Operations’s onshore oil-processing…