AINSWORTH, Circuit Judge: This multiparty suit in admiralty grows out of the death of a shore-based worker performing services in Texas City, Texas, on a barge used to transport benzene and similar cargoes. On March 1, 1972, 1 Joseph Martinez was overcome by noxious fumes while he was engaged in stripping a barge (the B-29) liquid free. The B-29 had been used to transport Hytrol-D, a petrochemical…
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