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HARPER v. FALRIG OFFSHORE, INC.

No. 00 694-CA.

776 So.2d 620 (2000)

Randolph (Randy) Wallace HARPER, etc., v. FALRIG OFFSHORE, INC., et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 21, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven Broussard, Lake Charles, LA, Counsel for Randolph (Randy) Wallace Harper, Taylor Alexander Harper, Blake Lee Harper, Plaintiff/Appellant/Appellee.

Gary Alan Hemphill, Terriberry, Carroll & Yancey, New Orleans, LA, Counsel for Steamship Mutual Underwriting Associates (Bermuda) Limited, Defendant/Appellee/Appellant.

Edwin Gustav Preis, Jr., Preis, Kraft & Roy, Lafayette, LA, Counsel for Falrig Offshore, Inc., Defendant/Appellee/Appellant.

Richard J. Hymel, Preis, Kraft & Roy, Lafayette, LA, Counsel for Falrig Offshore, Inc., Defendant/Appellee/Appellant.

Court composed of WOODARD, SULLIVAN, and GREMILLION, JJ.

WOODARD, Judge.

Mr. Randy Harper worked on a Falrig Offshore, Inc.'s (Falrig) jack-up rig (Falrig 19) more than three miles off Louisiana's coast. On the morning of November 7, 1996, his supervisor ordered him to install a rain shield over the crew's living quarters entrance. While working from a wooden stepladder approximately 45 inches above the deck, he fell while reaching for a sledge hammer being handed to him from above the first deck level. As a result of his...

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