This deckhand wants to clean up.
A Staten Island Ferry worker is fishing for a cool $1 million in damages from the city following a mishap walking to the boat.
Jermaine Black hurt his left knee Jan. 9, 2022 when he “slipped and fell on ice when approaching” the Ferryboat Andrew J. Barberi, he said in a Brooklyn Federal Court lawsuit.
The city failed to provide Black, 49, with safe passage to the Barberi, the worker said in court papers.
Black, who made $100,000 last year, said money from the suit would alleviate “pain and suffering,” court documents show.
The suit comes on the heels of a Staten Island Ferry skipper demanding $1 mil in damages from the city after an accident in the pilot house.
In that instance, Assistant Capt. Joseph Grym, 44, claims he wrenched his shoulder and back while trying to close a “jammed” pilot house window.
Grym’s injury allegedly occurred June 6, 2022 aboard the Spirit of America, a $40 million vessel the city launched in 2006, court papers state.
The city Law Department declined comment on Black’s lawsuit.
Neither Black nor his attorney responded to messages.
The suit was filed under the Jones Act — a 1920 federal law allowing maritime workers who are injured on the job to sue their employer for damages.
The 3,335-ton, 310-foot-long Barberi infamously crashed in 2003, killing 11 people.
It was retired on Sept. 28, 2023, and was put up for auction in May.
The big orange boat, named after the legendary Staten Island coach of the Curtis High School football team, sold to a mystery buyer for $101,100, the city announced in June.
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