Pennsylvania Maritime Resources

• Division of Longshore & Harbor Workers’
  Compensation Programs District Offices

  DLHWCP's goal is to minimize the impact of employment injuries and deaths on employees and their families by ensuring that workers’ compensation benefits provided under the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act and it extensions (including the Defense Base Act) are paid promptly and properly, and providing information, technical and compliance assistance, support, and informal dispute resolution services to workers, employers, and insurers.

• International Longshoremen's Association

  The International Longshoremen's Association is affiliated with the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, and is the largest union of maritime workers in North America, representing upwards of 65,000 longshoremen on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, Great Lakes, major U.S. rivers, Puerto Rico and Eastern Canada.

• Navigation Information Connection

  US Army Corps of Engineers provides information related to the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS). The UMRS includes the Federal navigation projects for the Minnesota River, St. Croix River, Black River, Illinois Waterway, Kaskaskia River and the Upper Mississippi River (above the confluence of the Ohio River at Cairo, IL).

• The Waterways Journal

  Weekly trade publication securing the inland rivers and Gulf Intracostal Waterway.

• Boating and PWC License, Safety, Certification and Education

  Earn your boating and personal watercraft license / certification from the professionals. Learn about boating safety, "rules of the road", navigation and many other topics to keep you and your passengers safe while underway.

• United States Department of Labor (DLHWC)

  Division of Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation. Important forms and information about the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act.

• US Army Corp of Engineers Recovery Act Site

  Established in 1802, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has built coastal fortifications, surveyed roads and canals, eliminated navigational hazards, explored and mapped the Western frontier. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, among others, owns and operates more than 600 dams, maintains 12,000 miles of commercial inland navigation channels, dredges more than 200 million cubic yards of construction and maintenance dredge material annually and maintains 926 coastal, Great Lakes and inland harbors.

The Moschetta Law Firm, P.C. in Washington, Pennsylvania handles cases along the major rivers in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky, including the Ohio River, Kanawha River, Allegheny River and Monongahela River.

Our maritime & personal injury lawyers represent clients in:
Pennsylvania: Washington, Pittsburgh and Beaver
Ohio: East Liverpool, Gallipolis, Marietta and Steubenville
West Virginia: Ashland, Charleston, Huntington, Marietta, Marshall, Mason, Morgantown, Parkersburg, Point Pleasant, Weirton and Wheeling.