LUONGO, District Judge.
Bennett, a longshore gang foreman, was injured while directing his gang in the movement of a 17-ton boiler into the wing of a hold in defendant's vessel. The movement was accomplished by dragging the boiler along the deck of the vessel by means of a bull line from the ship's winches rigged through snatch blocks located at strategic points on the vessel. One of the snatch blocks was secured by means of a wire strap wrapped around an H-beam stanchion...
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