Legal Opinion
Holmes v. Pacarini USA, Inc.
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided March 7, 2012No. 2011-CA-1033PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
On May 15, 2005, Maria Holmes was employed by Pacarini USA, Inc. and was *672performing longshore work at the Poland Avenue Wharf in the Port of New Orleans. On that day, she was injured when a fellow employee, Tyrone “Gleck” Soniat ran into her with a forklift and pinned her to a load of T-bars. Before he ran into Ms. Holmes with the forklift, Mr. Soniat had been drinking alcoholic beverages and smoking marijuana cigarettes laced with crack. This was not the first time that an intoxicated Pacarini employee had run into a fellow employee with a forklift at the Port of…
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