Kennedy
EAST ST. LOUIS – Watco Transloading may test the bone density of tugboat deckhand Kevin Beam, U.S. Magistrate Judge Gilbert Sison ruled on June 21.
He found good cause for an independent medical examination.
Watco previously admitted liability for an accident that injured Beam in 2017, but it doesn’t admit liability for all the damages he has requested.
Sison resolved a dispute over the bone scan upon referral by District Judge Staci Yandle, who plans to hold trial in December.
Beam, a Randolph County resident, helped load coal into barges at Watco’s terminal on Route 3 in Rockwood.
In 2017, a steel cable snapped and struck his back.