This deckhand wants to clean up.
A Staten Island Ferry attendant is seeking $1 million in damages from the city after an accident while walking to the boat.
Jermaine Black “slipped on ice and fell while approaching” the ferry boat Andrew J. Barberi on Jan. 9, 2022, injuring his left knee, he said in the Brooklyn federal court lawsuit.
City officials failed to provide Black, 49, safe passage to the Barberi River, officials said in court documents.
Black, who made $100,000 last year, said the money he receives from the lawsuit will ease his “pain and suffering,” court documents show.
The lawsuit comes on the heels of the captain of the Staten Island Ferry suing the city for $1 million in damages following an accident at the wheelhouse.
The case alleges that Lieutenant Joseph Grimm, 44, sprained his shoulder and back while trying to close a “stuck” window in the wheelhouse.
Grimm’s injuries allegedly occurred on June 6, 2022, aboard the Spirit of America, a $40 million ship launched by the city in 2006, according to court documents.
The city Law Department declined to comment on Black’s lawsuit.
Neither Black nor his lawyer responded to messages.
The lawsuit was brought under the Jones Act, a 1920 federal law that allowed maritime workers injured on the job to sue their employers for damages.
The 3,335-ton, 310-foot-long Barberi infamously crashed in 2003, killing 11 people.
It is due to be decommissioned on September 28, 2023, and was put up for auction in May.
The big orange boat, named after the legendary coach of Staten Island’s Curtis High School football team, was sold to a mystery buyer for $101,100, the city announced in June.
