Court Opinion

ID: 9469244
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 02:35:48.732212+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:41:17.962134
License: Public Domain

REAVLEY, Circuit Judge,
dissenting:
The trial court findings do not stop at faulting defendant for having unsecured scrap metal in the engine room, where that metal would be a hazard to seamen walking and standing in rough seas. The defendant was found to be negligent and to create an unseaworthy condition by taking the ship to sea with the metal aboard. The metal constituted a hazard in place as well as a hazard in the course of its removal.
*64The fact that the debris was not secured had nothing to do with its being thrown overboard, but taking the metal to sea for this method of disposal had everything to do with plaintiff seaman’s injury in the course of that disposal.
I would affirm.