CARIFFE v. P/R HOEGH CAIRN (M/V CAIRN)

No. 90 CV 0082 (ERK).

830 F.Supp. 144 (1993)

Frank CARIFFE, Plaintiff, v. P/R HOEGH CAIRN and M/V CAIRN, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. New York.

June 13, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bert Taras, Brooklyn, NY, for plaintiff.

Francis X. Byrn, Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens, New York City, for defendants.


MEMORANDUM & ORDER

KORMAN, District Judge.

Plaintiff, Frank Cariffe, a longshoreman employed by the Universal Maritime Service Stevedoring Company (UMS), was injured by inhaling Metanil Yellow, a corrosive powered coal tar dye (Yellow Acid 36), as drum lids came loose while he was removing the drums from inside a 40-foot container at Brooklyn Pier # 9. The drums were originally stuffed, closed and placed in the container and then loaded onto the defendant...

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