FELA Lawsuit

Nathan Musgraves, a Union Pacific worker, has recently filed a Federal Employer’s Liability Act lawsuit against his employer after claiming to have suffered injuries when a door struck him in the back.
Working as a tie plug operator for Union Pacific’s Maintenance of Way Engineering Department, Musgraves states that he had been recently transferred to the […]

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Richard Beaver, an employee of the Kansas City Southern Railway, has filed a lawsuit against KCS and Kinder Morgan Petcoke after he was injured from a train derailment that occurred last year.
According to Beaver, he was injured when Kinder Morgan Petcoke “negligently caused the KCS train, rail cars and locomotives….to derail.”
The lawsuit also claims that […]

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Illinois Central Railroad is facing a Federal Employer’s Liability Act lawsuit after a former employee claims he suffered injuries to his wrist and shoulder.
Donald Grammer, who has worked as a brakeman and switchman for a variety of railroads since 1964, claims to have suffered injuries as a result of repetitive occupational trauma.
Grammer claims to have suffered excessive trauma to his wrists […]

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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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