Hufnagel v. Omega Service Industries, Inc.

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• finding that the plaintiff’s action failed to meet either prong of the maritime tort test without reference to the plaintiff’s pending LHWCA claim
• finding that plaintiff’s “employment furthered mineral production on the shelf’ because his “injuries occurred on a stationary [oil] drilling platform” located on the shelf
• holding oil platform worker did not demonstrate substantial connection when he was injured aboard ship which he had been aboard for only seven days
• holding maritime jurisdiction did not apply to accident that “occurred entirely on” fixed drilling platform that had “no function in navigation”
• explaining that equipment attached to the platform instead of the vessel itself striking the petitioner does not satisfy the location test
• applying Louisiana law to a negligence claim based on events that occurred on a platform off the Louisiana coast

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