A federal agency has ordered Norfolk Southern Corp. to pay more $122,000 in compensatory and punitive damages and attorney’s fees as a result of showing reckless disregard for a former employee’s rights under the Federal Railroad Safety Act. According to the Virginian-Pilot, the man was injured in 2009 while doing tack maintenance in Jamestown, North Carolina…
In his latest post to our Norfolk Injuryboard blog, my Carolina personal injury law firm colleague Rick Shapiro shares important new information about health risks faced by rail employees for work for Amtrak, CSX, Norfolk Southern and other railroads. Rick notes that federal health officials have listed formaldehyde, which is a component of diesel engine…
Within hours of the announcement that two Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives had introduced federal legislation to convert Amtrak from a single federal corporation into several privately owned passenger railroads, Democratic lawmakers, rail employee union representatives and officials from organizations that speak for train passengers voiced their opposition to the privatization proposal. Published…
Looking for info about diesel exhaust fumes and their health effects? Take a look at this article.
Shortly after 7 am on Monday, June 20, 2011, an Amtrak train traveling through Cheraw, South Carolina (SC), crashed into a trash-collection truck. The two city employees in the pickup truck outfitted with a boom and bin lost their lives in the collision. This video from WMBF-TV in Myrtle Beach, SC, notes that the grade…