BEEKS, District Judge (sitting by designation).
On July 25, 1960, the steamship DAIRETSU MARU was lying alongside Central Dock at Coos Bay, Oregon. A log was in the process of being lifted by use of ship's tackle from the water alongside for stowage in No. 1 hatch. Plaintiff was a longshoreman in the employ of a master contract stevedore and the loading was being performed by fellow employees. At a time when the log had reached a point above No. 1 hatch it broke in...
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