Repetitive stress injuries (RSIs) are becoming a common occurrence among long-tenured railroad employees. For example, RSIs account for more than 60 percent of all occupational illnesses and impact roughly 1.8 million American workers. If you have been working for a railroad company such as Norfolk Southern, CSX, etc. for a number of years and are…
Falling asleep on the job is a long-standing joke that workers kid each other with. In many industries, however, falling asleep while working can be deadly. This is especially true in the railroad industry where having a member of a train crew or some other railroad workers become drowsy can have tragic consequences. Several years…
A longer discussion of the provisions of the Safety Appliance Act (SAA) and how attorneys who represent railroad workers who suffer injuries or die on the job appears elsewhere on this website. Click here to go to “Applying the Safety Appliance Act Can Help Injured Railroad Workers Succeed With Claims for Compensation.” The SAA became…
A 45-year-old man was killed, and his child injured when their vehicle was struck by a train at the New Kent railroad crossing at Rockahock and Outpost Roads. According to police, at approximately 5:45 p.m. on June 24, Kevin A. Pence, of Mechanicsville, was headed south on Outpost in a Chevy Suburban that was partially…
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) estimates that 94 percent of all deaths due to train crashes happen when people are on the tracks where and when they should not be. The majority of the fatalities, about 500 each year, are pedestrians. Deadly train collisions occur at railroad crossings, on bridges and overpasses, at stations, and…