The one I was referring to happened back in the Seventies, and apparently the guy went all the way in and broke his neck on the spinner cone. I remember seeing him get evacuated off the ship on a stretcher.
On another ship (USS America, I think) a guy walked into an E-2 prop back around 1978 in the Med. I heard that was awful.
It can be a dangerous place even if you do have your head on on a swivel.
Re: Prop mess.
My Dad worked for AA starting right after the WWII and while at PKB He was the “everything” employee ranging from Ticket Counter to engine start watch and everything in between. One flight was about to leave when some guy that had been drinking while waiting for the flight came running out to the Aircraft just as Engine 1 spun up. Dad was on the Fire Extinguisher and tackled the guy about 15’ from the spinning prop.