Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit March 7, 1963, 202, Docket 27619 (Lawrence Bernardo v. Bethlehem Steel Company)

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.