KING, Circuit Judge: Plaintiff Earl Phillips reinjured his back while he and a co-employee connected a flow line to the bell nipple on the blow-out preventer (BOP) stack of the TRITON III, a jack-up drilling rig off the coast of Louisiana owned by defendant The Western Company of North America (Western). He asserted an unseaworthiness claim under general maritime law and a negligence claim under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.App…
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