Cribb v. Great Lakes Engineering Works

Plaintiff was employed by defendant as a common laborer, and assigned to work with a gang of from five to eight men, of whom John Bregg was foreman. The work done by this gang was common labor around defendant’s shipyard. Bregg was ordered, on the morning of the accident, to take his men to the steamer Presque Isle, which was in winter quarters in the yard, and remove some scaffolding from the hold of the vessel, which had been in use to do some painting in one of the compartments. Before the scaffolding could be taken out, it became necessary to remove three of the hatch covers. These hatch…