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$ 4,000,000 Fishing Boat Fire and Explosion
Circulating compressor explodes leading to burns to deckhand engineer

$ 3,350,000 Fish Processor Injury
Confidential settlement for fish processor injured through negligence aboard ship

$ 3,250,000 Brain Injury
Tug Boat deckhand injured on barge by unseaworthy crane

$ 2,900,000 Wrongful Death for Seaman
Oil response Worker died when winch failed

$ 2,600,000 Arm Injury
Improperly trained fish processor injured cleaning Surimi auger

$ 2,500,000 Amputated hand
Fish processor injured by unguarded fish header

$ 2,500,000 Class Action Wage Dispute for crewman maintenance and cure

$ 2,240,000 Tug Boat Deckhand hand Injury
Tug boat deck hand injured through faulty equipment

$ 2,350,000 Deckhand Injury
Deckhand's foot crushed by moving deck hatch - Boston jury verdict

$ 2,300,000 Brain Injury and Seizure disorder
Negligent failure to provide ship pilot's safe transfer between ships

$ 2,300,000 Wrongful death claims for crewmen in factory trawler sinking


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Bait Choppers and Fish Heading Machines

Alaska Maritime Attorneys

Representing Fishermen Injured Using Bait Choppers and Fish Heading Machines

One of the most dangerous machines on any fishing vessel is a bait chopper. Improper training, unsafe design, and failure to have required lock out tag safety procedures for cleaning or repairing of the bait choppers or heading machines, can lead to crewmen receiving serious and permanent injuries. Improper location of the operational controls for the bait chopper and failure to have limit switches are safety hazards aboard crab boats and other fishing vessels.

Beard Stacey & Jacobsen, LLP has been representing injured fishermen making claims under the Jones Act for over two decades. They have handled multiple amputation injury cases involving the use of bait choppers and heading machines, recovering millions of dollars in compensation for their clients located throughout the United States. Properly guarding certain fish processing machinery and equipment on fishing vessels is required by the Fishing Vessel Safety Act.

To learn more about your rights to compensation for injuries on a fishing vessel, contact the lawyers at Beard Stacey & Jacobsen for a free consultation. Let us put our years of experience representing injured fishermen in Alaska, Washington, and Oregon to work for you.