FELA Lawsuit

A CSX Transportation employee was seriously injured after a train accident at a Lake Township, Ohio railyard on April 1. The railroad worker was switching railcars on a track in CSX’s Stanley Yard when he was hit by a rolling railcar on the adjacent track. It is unclear at this time whether the worker was […]

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Repetitive motion disorders can be a troubling injury for many railroad workers. A FELA lawsuit was recently filed by a diesel mechanic and former Norfolk Southern Railway employee after he experienced back and spine injuries as a result of his working conditions.
The man, Denny Cambron, claims that Norfolk Southern Railway violated FELA regulations by failing […]

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Matthew K. Rose, the Chief Executive Officer of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation, was paid $12.6 million last year. According to a statement the railroad company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, this was a three percent raise over Rose’s compensation for 2006. At that rate, Rose’s direct compensation might not even keep up […]

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The Tennessee Court of Appeals agreed with a $5 million judgment awarded to a railroad worker by a circuit court recently, ruling against an appeal by CSX Transportation which claimed that the statute of limitations had expired, that the judge’s charge was questionable, and that the plaintiff’s lawyer made an inappropriate closing statement.
Thurston Hensley, a […]

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According to the Federal Railroad Administration, a train derailment accident occurs somewhere in the U.S. on average every five hours. In 2007, 1,696 train derailments occurred nationwide from all railroad companies, down from 1,982 in 2006. Nationally, Union Pacific had 1,722 hazardous material releases, and 215 hazardous material cars were damaged or derailed.
However, Mark Davis, […]

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