Michael Massaro v. United States Lines Company v. Northern Metal Company

BIGGS, Chief Judge.

The longshoreman-plaintiff, Massaro, sustained serious injuries while employed by Northern Metal Company, the third-party defendant, to discharge cargo from the No. 2 hold of the S.S. American Guide, owned by the defendant and third-party plaintiff, United States Lines Company. On July 26, 1957, at about 2 P.M. Massaro was in the vessel’s No. 2 hold and was directed by his foreman to go back to the deck. He had climbed a permanent vertical steel ladder to a point about at the level of the lower ’tween deck, when he heard the stevedore hatch-tender on the main deck shout a…