Keith Coffin v. Blessey Marine Services, In

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• recognizing that an employee is not a seaman if his nonseaman’s work becomes substantial— i.e., it occupies more than approximately 20% of the employee’s time
• holding that vessel-based tankermen were employed as seamen when their duties in- cluded loading and unloading the barges, a task integrally connected to the barge’s seaworthiness
• finding that vessel-based tankermen responsible for constant monitoring of barges to ensure safe navigation were seamen
• reversing the lower court’s holding that a cook was an FLSA-exempt seaman because the lower court “did not address the amount of time the cooks devoted to the task” of preparing meals for liftboat crew members.
• “This reading is consistent with our own precedent in which we attempt to give the term seaman its ordinary meaning”
• Meza v. Intelligent Mexican Mktg., Inc., 720 F.3d 577, 580-81 (5th Cir. 2013)

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