---
title: "Build a seafarer injury issues table from the employment facts"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/practice/maritime-shipping-and-transport/build-a-seafarer-employment-and-compensation-issues-table/united-states"
type: "task_jurisdiction_version"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "A37-T1-R8-US"
practice_area: "Maritime, Shipping & Transport"
tier: "yellow"
lawyer_review: "required"
jurisdictions: ["US"]
last_reviewed: "2026-10-22"
---

# Build a seafarer injury issues table from the employment facts

> Record whether the papers describe the person as a seaman, an injury in the course of employment, and the employer. Write no conclusion on liability.

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Last reviewed: 2026-10-22

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## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Practice area | [Maritime, Shipping & Transport](https://ailawframework.com/practice/maritime-shipping-and-transport.md) |
| Human involvement | Yellow: Lawyer and AI draft together |
| How AI is used | Record whether the papers describe the person as a seaman, an injury in the course of employment, and the employer. Write no conclusion on liability. |
| What the lawyer must review | 46 USC section 30104 provides that a seaman injured in the course of employment, or the personal representative if the seaman dies from the injury, may elect to bring a civil action at law, with the right of trial by jury, against the employer. Laws of the United States regulating recovery for personal injury to, or death of, a railway employee apply to that action. For that subsection, seaman does not include an aquaculture worker if state workers compensation is available and the worker was, at the injury, engaged in aquaculture in a place of lawful access. The statute does not, in the text opened here, state a maintenance-and-cure measure or a benefits schedule. You decide whether the person is a seaman. Opinion 512: do not invent a case. |
| Written for | United States |
| Applies to | [Build a seafarer-employment and compensation issues table](https://ailawframework.com/practice/maritime-shipping-and-transport/build-a-seafarer-employment-and-compensation-issues-table.md) |

## Checking plan

- What the AI does: Record whether the papers describe the person as a seaman, an injury in the course of employment, and the employer. Write no conclusion on liability.
- Basis: Checked against the linked sources on 22 October 2026. Confirm the current instrument before reliance.

## Notes

- The Longshore and Harbor Workers Compensation Act was not opened beyond its short title. Do not state its benefits.
- The positive definition of seaman is not in the text of section 30104 that was opened, apart from the aquaculture exclusion.

## Sources

- [46 USC section 30104 (personal injury to or death of seamen)](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/46/30104) (checked 2026-10-22)
- [28 USC section 1333 (admiralty and maritime jurisdiction)](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/1333) (checked 2026-10-22)
- [ABA Formal Opinion 512, Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools (29 July 2024)](https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/professional_responsibility/ethics-opinions/aba-formal-opinion-512.pdf) (checked 2026-10-22)

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*