Siewertsen v. Worthington Steel Co.

ORDER

JAMES G. CARR, Senior District Judge.

This is an employment-discrimination case under the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq., and analogous state-law provisions.

The plaintiff, Nicholas Siewertsen, is a deaf man who has worked for the defendant, the Worthington Steel Company, since 1999. Among his other duties as a Worthington employee, Siewertsen regularly and without incident operated forklifts, overhead cranes, and other heavy motorized equipment at the company’s plant in Delta, Ohio.

In 2011, however, Siewertsen’s supervisors learned — apparently for the first…