Georgia Ports Authority v. Hutchinson

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

Charles Hutchinson III sued Georgia Ports Authority and crane operator Cory Green for damages to his hand, caused when Green dropped a 12-to-20 ton container box while Hutchinson was hooking a “locking shoe” to the box. Hutchinson contends the crane and crane operator were controlled by the Ports Authority, and that although crane operators use radios to communicate with other dock personnel, the procedure for communication between crane operators and longshoremen ninety feet below was inadequate and unsafe, consisting *727merely of hand signals by a longshoreman with a…