Since the beginning of civilization, cities have relied on rivers and waterways to travel and transport goods. Natural processes like silting, which is the gradual build-up of sediment and other debris, can block essential channels. Before dredging, there was no way...
Working on a barge or a rig can be dangerous, as the risk of maritime accidents is higher than most professions. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), between 2011 and 2017, 45 fatal and more than 61,000 nonfatal injuries in the...
Currently, 5,000 seamen are employed in the United States, according to Zippia. These individuals face various potentially dangerous situations in their day-to-day activities, working in jobs excavating natural resources, working on pipelines, doing scientific...
Boating accidents are an entirely different entity than car accidents because of the likelihood of personal injury, damage to the vessel, and the possibility of drowning. Since handling boating accidents are so different from car accidents, many questions can arise:...
The laws and restrictions in a personal injury case tend to change when an accident occurs in a body of water because maritime law typically becomes part of the legal proceeding instead of the state laws. While each individual state governs the laws carried out on...
The Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act is a federal law that provides medical and other benefits to longshoremen, harbor workers, civilian employees on military bases worldwide, and many other maritime employees. Read on to learn if you qualify for...
An unfortunate factor of maritime work is that death is a real possibility. And every year, many of those deaths related to maritime accidents were avoidable. Seamen, fisherman, and other maritime workers often work under unsafe conditions, on vessels that are not...
