Cooney v. Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Company

OPINION

HIGGINBOTHAM, District Judge.

In this civil suit for damages arising out of the accidental death of plaintiff’s decedent, an employee of the above named defendant Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, on July 31, 1963, as the result of a fall from a ship located at the defendant’s drydock, the plaintiff seeks by the present motion to compel production of a report of the accident prepared immediately after its occurrence by investigators representing the Office of Occupational Safety, Bureau of Labor Standards, U. S. Department of Labor. The report is purported to consist of statements…