Arceneaux v. Alcoa Steamship Co.

AINSWORTH, District Judge.

Plaintiff, a longshoreman, was injured aboard the SS ALCOA RANGER at New Orleans while working with three other longshoremen in loading a cargo of rolls of paper on the vessel. These rolls weighed about 100 to 150 pounds, were about 4 feet long and approximately 1% to 2 feet in diameter. They were lowered into the hold of the vessel with about 20 to 30 rolls to a pallet. Plaintiff and the other longshoremen formed a line on the deck of the ship and passed the rolls by hand from one man to the next. Plaintiff, the last man in the line, was stowing the rolls when a…