In his latest post to our firm’s Railroad Accident/FELA Lawyers blog, my colleague John C. reports that Norfolk Southern has been order to pay its insurer $58 million to make up for payments of injury and wrongful death claims following a deadly 2005 release of toxic chlorine gas in Graniteville, South Carolina (SC). John observes…
The Washington Examiner reports that a man was killed by a Metro train at the Farragut North Station the morning of Saturday, January 15th, 2011. The victim, who was unable to be indentified at the time, was pronounced dead at the scene by D.C. fire and emergency services. Authorities are presently investigating the accident, according…
According to WBTV, a pedestrian is dead in northeast Charlotte, North Carolina (NC), after being struck by a train. The railroad accident occurred on Friday, January 7th, 2011, at approximately 2:51 p.m. According to Amtrak, the Piedmont train was heading from Raleigh to Charlotte when it hit the pedestrian near the intersection of McLean Road and…
An Iowa Interstate Railroad employee suffered serious abdominal injuries when a freight train backing up in the rail yard for a Council Bluffs, IA, power plant crashed through a closed gate, bent a guardrail and pinned him in place so tightly rescuers needed to use heavy cutting tools to free him. News reports noted that…