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- Title: Richard L. Reetz v. Kinsman Marine Transit
- Author : Supreme Court of Michigan
- Release Date : January 23, 1982
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 74 KB
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Richard L. Reetz commenced this action against Kinsman Marine Transit Company to recover for injuries he sustained in September, 1974, while employed as a deckhand aboard Kinsman's vessel the Merle McCurdy. At that time, while engaged in a procedure to open the hatches on the vessel, Reetz fell backwards into an open hatch and plummeted approximately 40 feet to the steel deck below. Reetz alleged under the Jones Act, 46 USC 688, that his injuries were caused by Kinsman's negligence in failing to properly train Reetz or, alternatively, that Kinsman was liable because of the vessel's unseaworthiness. 1 Kinsman countered that the accident occurred because of Reetz's own negligence in failing to follow direct orders from his first mate not to walk backwards on the hatches while opening them. At the trial, testimony by Reetz and the first mate directly conflicted as to whether such orders were ever given. No other testimony relating to the alleged orders was presented. 2