Martin v. Pride Offshore Co.

ROn November 7, 1996, claimant, David Martin, was employed by defendant, Pride Offshore Company, Inc. (“Pride”), as a roustabout on a fixed platform rig when he was injured in a single-car accident in Mississippi. At the conclusion of claimant’s regularly scheduled seven-day “hitch,” he was flown via helicopter from the rig to a parking lot in Venice, Louisiana, where his personal vehicle was parked. Approximately two to three hours and 132 miles from Venice, while traveling on Interstate 10 in Mississippi en route to his home in Alabama, claimant fell asleep at the wheel, ran off of the…