Garcia v. Union Carbide Corp.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Michael J. Dontzin, J.), entered December 11, 1989, granting defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff was employed as an engine man aboard a vessel owned by defendant Union Carbide (a New York corporation) and operated by defendant Marine Transport Lines. While, the vessel was docked at Guayanilla Bay in Ponce, Puerto Rico in April 1976, an explosion and fire occurred at an adjacent chemicals plant and tank farm owned and operated by Union Carbide Caribe, Inc. (a Delaware corporation,…