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Admiralty Law Keyed to Maraist
Northeast Marine Terminal Co. v. Caputo
Citation:
432 U.S. 249, 97 S.Ct. 2348, 53 L.Ed.2d 320, 1977 AMC 1037 (1977)Facts
Respondent Carmelo Blundo had been employed for five years as a “checker” by International Terminal Operating Co. (ITO) at its 21st Street Pier in Brooklyn. His job involved checking and recording cargo as it was loaded onto or unloaded from vessels, barges, or containers. On January 8, 1974, Blundo was assigned to check cargo being “stripped” from a container on the 19th Street side of the pier. The container had been taken off a vessel at another pier facility and brought overland by an independent trucking company. While marking cargo stripped from the container, Blundo slipped on ice on the pier and was injured. Respondent Ralph Caputo was a member of a regular longshoring gang who worked for various employers when his regular gang wasn’t needed. On April 16, 1973, Northeast Marine Terminal Co. hired Caputo as a “terminal laborer.” He was assigned to help consignees’ truckmen load their trucks with cargo that had been discharged from ships. Caputo was injured while rolling a dolly loaded with cheese into a consignee’s truck.
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