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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The family of a Charlottesville, VA, man has filed a Federal Employer’s Liability Act lawsuit against his former employer. Edgar Goodman, the man mentioned, had been employed as a signalman for CSX Transportation from 1947 to 1951. During this time, his family claims that he was exposed to large amounts of asbestos fibers that were […]

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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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Simplicio Nino, 58, a veteran track welder for New Jersey Transit, was struck and killed by a passenger train early Sunday morning. An investigation is underway to determine the cause of the accident, and the results of the inquiry will be given to the Federal Railroad Administration.
Nino had worked for the railroad for 36 years.
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