Seeking recovery for personal injuries allegedly sustained during the course of his employment for the defendant railroad, the appellant, Ralph E. Vidal, brought this action in the District Court pursuant to the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, 45 U.S.C. § 51 et seq. After-a trial before the court without a jury, the District Court, Cooper, J., dismissed the complaint in an opinion incorporating the court’s findings of fact and conclusions of law, reported at 220 F.Supp. 922.

Plaintiff testified that, while engaged in sewing strips of heavy duty carpet in defendant’s upholstery shop, a clamp holding together the two portipns of the carpet being sewn slipped and caused him to fall backwards, whereupon he sustained the injuries of which he eom-plains.

The District Judge found that the plaintiff failed to establish by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant was negligent in failing to furnish appellant either a safe place to work, sufficient assistance or proper equipment. We cannot say these findings were clearly erroneous. Neither the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur nor the District Court’s prior denial of defendant’s motion to dismiss at the close of the plaintiff’s case compelled any other result.

The judgment is affirmed.