MEDINA, Circuit Judge.
On April 19, 1956 Lawrence Bernardo, a shore-based welder in the employ of Bethlehem Steel Company, was injured when he fell from a scaffold on a floating drydock in a slip of Bethlehem's 27th Street shipyard in Brooklyn, New York. In this action against Bethlehem, Bernardo alleged claims under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C. § 688, and the general maritime law; and, as the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act of March 4, 1927,...
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