Case Examples

Maritime Injuries
Personal Injury

A man working on a tug boat in heavy seas transferred himself onto a rope ladder hanging down from an adjacent barge. He was climbing the ladder when the seas pushed the hulls of the tug boat and barge together, trapping his foot between the two vessels, degloving the skin and subcutaneous tissues from his foot and resulting in amputation of part of his foot.

• Had the man been wearing steel-tipped safety boots as required, would he have sustained the injuries?