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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An employee of the Kansas City Southern Railway is suing the railroad after suffering injuries on the job. The man, Richard Beaver, claims to have suffered serious injuries atfter a train derailed last year.
Beaver claims that while working on a Kansas City Southern Railway train, Kinder Morgan Petcoke, L.P. negligently caused the train to derail. This, […]

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A worker employed by the Norfolk Southern railroad was injured Wednesday in a collision between a locomotive and several rail cars. The accident, which occurred at the DeButts Rail Yard in Chattanooga in the early morning, caused the rail cars to tilt and partially come off the track, during which time the rail worker suffered […]

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Salem-based railroad Portland & Western was honored by its parent company, Genesee & Wyoming, for completing a second year of injury-free operations. The Chairman’s Award is given out by Genesee & Wyoming to the best performer among the eight regions it manages in North America and Australia. Bruce Carswell, president of Portland & Western, termed […]

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In a case filed last week in the Orange County District Court, railroad worker Myron Lynn Reed made allegations of negligence against Union Pacific Railroad. According to the suit, in October of last year, Reed injured his back, neck, and shoulder as the result of a collision between a truck and the train Reed was […]

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