Stewart

Appellant filed a libel to recover for personal injuries suffered by him by reason of an accident occurring on the I2th day of November, 1930, while he was engaged as an oiler on board the steamship Yale, owned by the Los Angeles Steamship Company. Appellant’s duty was to take care of the auxiliary machinery in the engine room and make thirty-minute rounds over the engine proper, the main bearings, and the shaft bearings. In pursuance of his duties he was called upon to inspect the bearings of the three propeller ■shafts every half hour to ascertain whether they were heating up and whether or not there was any necessity for additional oil. In making his rounds he was required to cross the propeller shaft of the center propeller. In doing so he was injured as hereinafter stated and claims that the injury resulted from the unseaworthy condition of the ship, in that the planks of the walk he was required to use passed underneath the propeller shaft so that he was required to step over the shaft which was revolving about 375 times per minute and that no handrail or supports were provided to steady him while so doing. It appears that the plank walk extending underneath the shaft…