C & C Marine Maintenance Co. v. Bellows

OPINION OF THE COURT

FISHER, Circuit Judge.

This appeal arises out of the Benefits Review Board’s (“BRB”) decision to affirm an Administrative Law Judge’s (“ALJ”) order that C & C Marine Maintenance Company (“C & C Marine”) must pay Roger Bellows permanent disability benefits under the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act (“LHWCA”), 33 U.S.C. §§ 901-950. For the reasons that follow, we will affirm the order of the BRB.

I

On May 3, 2000, Roger Bellows, an employee of C & C Marine, moved lime from one barge to another. While doing so, he stepped in a pile of the chemical and suffered…