Railroad Injury Lawyers | FELA Claims
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Railroad Worker Killed In Accident
by Matthew D. Shaffer on January 10, 2012
A railroad worker was killed Monday after being hit by a maintenance car, Amarillo police said. The man was hit by a grinder machine and pulled beneath the car, Lt. Gary Trupe said. The victim worked from Burlington Norther Santa Fe Railway. An autopsy was ordered in the incident. Rail grinders are used to maintain railroad tracks, said a spo...
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Freight Trains Collide, Hundreds Stranded
by Matthew D. Shaffer on October 03, 2011
The collision of two freight trains in Arlington left hundreds of people stranded Saturday night. An eastbound freight train struck another train that was stopped on the tracks near the 400 block of West Division Street, Union Pacific spokeswoman Raquel Espinoza said. Both trains belong to Union Pacific. Espinoza said it would take several days...
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Paul Young, BNSF Foreman, Loses Arm and Leg in Fort Worth Texas Railroad Accident
by Matthew D. Shaffer on May 24, 2011
A train in Fort Worth, Texas ran over railroad employee Paul Young, a 28 year-old BNSF Foreman, today. Mr. Young remains in serious condition at John Peter Smith Hospital after the train ran over him, amputating his legs and an arm, according to railroad officials. Young was working on the train Monday night when he was hit by it, say BNSF...
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Union Pacific Train Accident Leads to Amputation of Conductor’s Arm in California
by Matthew D. Shaffer on September 10, 2010
Railroad investigators continued their probe today into what caused two trains to collide near Interstate 10 in Fontana. A surgical team amputated the arm of a railroad conductor Friday to free him from the wreckage of a locomotive that struck a slow-moving freight train on tracks 50 miles east of Los Angeles, California. The slower-moving fre...
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Joshua Roper, Alabama Railroad Worker, Killed in Railway Accident
by Matthew D. Shaffer on September 07, 2010
Joshua Alan Roper, a railroad worker for the Alabama State Port Authority, was killed by a train Saturday, September 4, at the McDuffie Coal Terminal, located on the Mobile River at the Alabama State Docks. The McDuffie Coal Terminal is one of the nation's leading facilities for coal exporting. The Federal Railroad Administration and state d...
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James Knell's Widow Files Suit, MTA Supervisor Killed On The Job | Train Accident Attorney
by Matthew D. Shaffer on July 22, 2010
Jackie Knell, widow of a Metropolitan Transportation Authority supervisor who was killed on the job last April has filed a $50 million wrongful death lawsuit against the city of New York. James Knell, 45, was electrocuted when he came into contact with the third rail at the Beach 90th Street A Station in Queens.In her wrongful death suit, Mrs. ...
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Darnell Amerson Norfolk-Southern Mississippi Railroader Killed
by Stacey E. Burke on July 07, 2010
On Friday, July 2, Darnell Amerson died due to injuries sustained in a Norfolk-Southern Railroad train accident. Amerson was working as a conductor at a train yard owned by Norfolk-Southern Railroad in Meridian, Mississippi at the time of his unfortunate fatal accident. Early news reports about the accident stated that Amerson was critically i...
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CSX Employee Hit, Killed by Train in Hanover County Railyard | Virginia FELA Lawyer
by Stacey E. Burke on June 11, 2010
SMSH has learned that Conductor Marshall W. Conner, 54, a member of United Transport Union (UTU) Local 610 and a 26-year veteran railroader (according to commenter, as long as 33 years) was hit by a northbound freight train traveling a parallel track while he was conducting an air brake test. Sadly, Mr. Conner ldied as a result of these injurie...
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Jury Awards Former Iowa Interstate Railroad Train Conductor $33 Million
by Matthew D. Shaffer on March 30, 2010
In Rock Island County, Illinois, Andrew Schulte, a former Iowa Interstate Railroad train conductor, was awarded $33 million in damages by a jury last week to compensate him for his April 2007 Railroad Personal Injury Claims. Mr. Schulte was trying to pull a pin on a rail car when the pin lifter stuck, causing him to trip and fall, leading to hi...
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Railroad Workers With Repetitive Stress Injuries
by Stacey E. Burke on February 20, 2010
If you are a railroad employee who has suffered a cumulative trauma injury or a lifting injury from your job at a railroad, an "ergonomic study" may determine if you have a personal injury claim. Ergonomics involves changing work tasks themselves to prevent repetitive stress injuries and cumulative trauma injuries from happening. There are two...
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Woman killed by Dallas-area commuter train
by Stacey E. Burke on February 16, 2010
For the second time in a week, a pedestrian was killed by DART commuter train The Trinity Railway Express, which runs between Dallas, Texas and Fort Worth, Texas. The impact pushed the victim's body into a nearby intersection and she was pronounced dead at the scene. The train operator saw the pedestrian and sounded the horn. Last week, a man...
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Railroads Must Compensate Employee Fired For Reporting Work Injury
by Stacey E. Burke on February 12, 2010
OSHA has ordered the Illinois Central Railroad Co. and the Chicago, Central & Pacific Railroad to pay a former railroad employee more than $80,000 in back wages, compensatory damages and attorney's fees. The employee alleged that the railroads terminated his employment in retaliation for reporting a work-related injury he sustained while perfor...
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Derailed Train in Baytown, Texas
by Stacey E. Burke on January 25, 2010
Emergency crews shut down a section of Wade Road near I-10 in Baytown due to a train derailment. Eight freight train cars have derailed and one of the cars contains sulfuric acid. No leaks have been found so far in the investigation and inspection. The cause of the derailment is under investigation.A derailment is a railway accident that occu...
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Positive Train Control Mandated by Federal Government
by Stacey E. Burke on January 20, 2010
This week, federal railroad officials unveiled regulations for equipping the nation's freight and passenger trains with automated braking systems. The federal rules were enacted to ensure the safety and reliability of freight, commuter and intercity passenger rail routes. These rules regulate the design and installation of train technology tha...
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Speaking out about a Fatal Train-car Collision in North Carolina
by Matthew D. Shaffer on December 29, 2009
The North Carolina Highway Patrol and the Department of Transportation continue to investigate a fatal train-car collision that took the lives of a young mother and her 5-year-old son, Nicholas Lindsay. The mother drove under the train's crossing arms and her Toyota hit on the tracks by a Norfolk Southern Railroad traincar. The 5 year-old was ...
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Railroad Employer Liable for Parking Lot Injury
by Matthew D. Shaffer on December 19, 2009
The Nebraska Supreme Court found Union Pacific Railroad Co. liable under the Federal Employers' Liability Act (FELA) for injuries sustained by a conductor injured while walking from the company-owned parking lot to his office. The conductor suffered knee injuries in 2006 after stepping into a hole while walking through a city-owned alleyway lin...
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Should I get a lawyer to file my FELA injury claim?
by Matthew D. Shaffer on November 27, 2009
In 1908, Congress passed the Federal Employees Liability Act, more commonly known as FELA, a comprehensive law designed to protect the rights of injured railroaders and their families. FELA applies to all railroads and their employees. FELA is the only avenue of legal recourse for most causes of action the employee of a railway may have agains...
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Court grants arbitration case involving labor dispute in railroad industry
by Stacey E. Burke on April 06, 2009
The Supreme Court has agreed to clarify the scope of federal courts’ authority to second-guess arbitration decisions made to resolve labor disputes in the railroad and airline industries. In 2002 and 2003, Union Pacific Railroad Co. charged five employees with disciplinary violations after a formal investigation and hearing. The employees filed...
