Campbell v. Bayou Steel Corp.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

PALLMEYER, District Judge.

This action arises out of injuries sustained on October 2, 2002 by Plaintiff Ryan Campbell (“Campbell”), a laborer with Kindra Marine Terminal, Inc. (“Kindra”), while he was unloading several pieces of steel owned by Defendant Bayou Steel Corp. (“Bayou”) from a barge onto a dock at Bayou’s Chicago facility. Defendant Andrew Stuart Clay (“Clay”), the “lead man” for Bayou’s night shift operations at the Chicago facility, was the sole Bayou employee present on the night of the accident. Plaintiff filed this action in state court on November…