Two crew members*, who reportedly suffered chemical burns on a Celeb cruise ship as we speak, had been medevaced to Sentara Norfolk Basic Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia.
The crew members had been injured whereas engaged on the Celeb Summit cruise ship. Earlier as we speak, the cruise ship contacted the Coast Guard Fifth District Command Heart, which responds to maritime incidents within the U.S. Mid-Atlantic Area, to be able to receive medical help for the injured crew members. The Celeb cruise ship was situated roughly 70 miles from the shore of Virginia.
The Coast Guard dispatched a MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Elizabeth Metropolis, North Carolina and flew the crew members and a ship physician from the ship to Sentara Norfolk Basic Hospital.
Injured Celeb crew members aren’t permitted to file lawsuits towards the cruise line after they’re injured. As an alternative, they’re required to pursue their authorized treatments by way of internattional arbitration pursuant to the one-sided arbitration agreements inserted by their employer into their employment contracts which require that that the legislation of Malta applies.
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June 3, 2022 Replace: *In accordance with an engineer aboard a Celeb ship, the 2 injured staff aren’t Celeb crew members however are as an alternative contractors: particularly, “two contractors engaged on the AEP overhauling.” “AEP” stands for “Superior Emission Purification System” (i.e. scrubber system). Now we have written about scrubbers on Royal Caribbean owned cruise ships earlier than.
Legally, if the injured staff had been in truth paid by a contractor of Celeb fairly than straight by the ship, they nonetheless ought to have been supplied with a fairly secure place to work and full PPE (private protecting tools) identical to a ship worker paid by the cruise lne.
Relating to the work on the scrubber system, the query arises why Celeb was requiring the contractors to work on the challenge whereas the Celeb Summit was at sea with passengers, fairly than when the ship was not in service? You’ll recall {that a} hearth broke out on the Royal Caribbean Freedom of the Seas when welding operations linked to the set up of a scrubber system had been underway when the cruise ship was crusing to Falmouth, Jamaica in 2015. Freedom of the Seas Fire: Is Royal Caribbean Installing a Scrubber System With Passengers Aboard?
