How do I know if I am covered by the Longshore and Harbor Workers Compensation Act?
If you find that a State Workers’ Compensation Appeals Act or the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act does not cover you, then you must look to another area to cover you in workers’ compensation. If you work on the waterfront, unloading or loading ships, if you work on the waterfront in repairing or building ships or work with any of the marinas in repair or rebuilding, then you are generally covered by the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act. The Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act or an extension of it also covers you if you work on a military base for a civilian contractor with the military, such as a Burger King on a military base or even if you work for one of the post exchanges or the officer’s clubs. Those kinds of places are covered by what is called a Non-appropriated Instrumentalities Act, which is an extension of the LS Act. Other places where the LS Act may cover you are if you work on oil drilling rigs in the open sea or if you work on a defense base
