Legal Opinion
Commings v. Mike Hooks Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 14, 2009No. 08-30942Unpublished
1Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM: *
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In October 2006, Tracy Commings started a job with Mike Hooks, Inc. (“MHI”), a dredging operation engaged by the United States Army Corps of Engineers to dredge the Ott Bayou Channel in Biloxi, Mississippi. Commings was hired as a deckhand.
During the dredging, certain pontoons drifted away from the worksite and beached in shallow waters at a nearby barrier island. To retrieve the pontoons, Commings, Warren Holton, and Jeffrey Harrison boarded an eighteen-foot survey skiff. Holton was the Lead Engineer and the Designated Site Safety Health Officer for the dredging operation.…
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