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Railroad Injuries - DO'S and DON'TS if you are hurt on the job.
Category: FELA News
Seeing the doctor with a supervisor
Many major railroads have a rule that once an injury report is made, a supervisor is directed to accompany the worker to a medical exam, often directed to a railroad-approved medical doctor. Most workers do not understand or realize that they are not required to allow a supervisor to be in the examination room, or to receive any confidential patient-physician information.
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Major Investigative Report on railroad-crossing accident reporting
Category: Other Railroad Accidents
The New York Times published a major expose relating to questionable tactics by some of the nation's railroads in railroad-crossing incidents, many involving deaths. On July 11, 2004, Walt Bogdanich, a New York Times reporter, published an article relating to deaths at rail crossings, missing evidence, and silence. The article specifically revealed that Union Pacific, CSX, and several other railroads, have broken federal rules by failing to promptly report hundreds of fatal accidents--71 of them during calendar year 2003.
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Rail-highway crossing safety questioned
Category: Train Accidents
In November 2005, the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Transportation released an audit of the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) oversight of railroad-highway-roadway crossing accidents. The audit had some interesting findings, revealing the lax regulatory oversight of rail-crossing safety:
FELA and Railroad Injury Overview
Category: FELA News
Welcome to our blog dedicated to railroad injuries and the Federal Employer's Liability Act (FELA), where you can find all railroad law news and information. This site stemmed from a couple of posts on our Virginia Beach Personal Injury Law blog, which we hope provides helpful information as well.
See our train and railroad accident overview as well as an indictment of the Federal Rail Safety Act.
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Rail employees are the front line of defense in the war against terrorism
Category: FELA News
Recent events in Spain and France have illustrated the vulnerability of rail operations to terrorist acts. In the war against terrorism, rail employees are the front line of defense. This article focuses on recent efforts and specifically avoids a simple discussion of vulnerable operations. Unfortunately, since 9-11, there has been no coordinated or uniform effort by carriers to train employees regarding security issues. For instance, on Amtrak, the conductor and assistant conductor should be able to screen all passengers upon boarding and during the trip. Maintenance-of-way workers can observe track conditions for security issues. But, in order to perform these duties effectively, training is needed and/or recognition by the carriers that such duties are crucial to the security of rail operations.
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