The United Transportation Union is reporting that its membership suffered its ninth fatal on-the-job accident during 2011. According to the UTU, a 6-year veteran CSX engineer was crushed and killed between a locomotive and a rail car in Botkins, Ohio (OH), on September 8. The locomotive had been pushing a stalled train, and the accident…
Yet another horrific 2011 balcony accident has occurred in Hampton Roads, Virginia (VA), this time injuring a boy who is just 2 years old. The Virginian-Pilot has reported that the toddler fell from a second floor balcony at a Ramada Inn on Military Highway in Norfolk. The boy was taken to Children’s Hospital of the King’s…
One Virginia teen is dead after a milk truck struck a car filled with student drivers as it changed lanes on I-81 outside of Harrisburg.
Police believe the driver of a Volvo was speeding before running off Elmhurst Lane near Victory Boulevard in Portsmouth, Virginia (VA), and causing a one-car crash in which two teenaged girls lost their lives. The third person in the car at the time of the wreck, a 17-year-old boy, also suffered serious injuries a result…
A railroad worker from Thayer, Missouri (MO), was recently awarded a $2.3 million dollar settlement after suing the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Co. Thomas Joe Carney was injured in August 2005 while working as a railroad engineer. He was operating a train when it ran over rough track on roadbed that, Carney claimed, had experienced a…