Samuel v. TIDEWATER MARINE SERVICES

ORDER AND REASONS

FALLON, District Judge.

Before this Court is defendants’ motion for summary judgment. For the following reasons, the defendants’ motion for summary judgment is granted.

BACKGROUND

On December 14, 1992, John Samuel, a citizen and resident of Trinidad-Tobago, injured a finger on his right hand while setting up deck tugger wire aboard the MTV TIGER TIDE. At the time of Mr. Samuel’s accident, he was stretching out a tugger wire to be used in recovering pipeline marker buoys for the oil rig ROWAN GORILLA IV.

Since his accident, Mr. Samuel has received workman’s compensation payments…