Legal Opinion
Lamar Wallace v. Texaco, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 6, 1982No. 81-3755PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Per curiam
Plaintiff Lamar Wallace was employed by Automation Associates, Inc. to work on an offshore oil rig platform owned by defendant Texaco, Inc. While Wallace was being lifted in a personnel basket from a crew boat to the platform, the basket fell to the floor of the platform and Wallace was injured. The basket and the crane used to lift it were owned by Texaco, and the operator was a Texaco employee. The injury occurred on February 14, 1980. Wallace filed the instant lawsuit on April 2, 1981.
Because Wallace was injured on a fixed platform on the outer continental shelf, his cause of action is…
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