What Happened Our Virginia railroad injury client had worked as a locomotive engineer for 25 years when, in July 2001, he suffered disabling knee and shoulder injuries in a fall from the vertical stairwell on a train engine. He fell because one of the handholds broke loose. The engineer damaged his left shoulder when his…
What Happened While working as a railroad brakeman/conductor in the southeastern United States, our client suffered a career-ending back injury after stepping into a depression in the gravel that formed the rail bed. He was performing a physical and visual inspection of the air brakes on his milelong train when he lost his footing and…
What Happened Our client had worked for Norfolk Southern in Tennessee for more than 20 years. He injured his back while trying to realign a slewed drawhead, His intent was to protect other crew members from getting hurt while trying to couple a rail car. Our client and another member of his crew confirmed that…
What Happened Our Virginia railroad wrongful death client, Stephen Fowlkes, worked in Norfolk Southern’s car repair shop at Lambert’s Point between 1979 and 1990. An autopsy obtained by his daughter following his 2017 death showed lung damage from asbestos. Hired by the daughter to pursue a wrongful death claim under provisions of the Federal Employers…
What Happened Our railroad injury client was operating an Amtrak locomotive when he suffered serious back and knee injuries in a derailment as his passenger train approached Lake City, South Carolina. The engineer was also later diagnosed with a mild traumatic brain injury. Our investigation revealed that the train derailed because an earlier accident involving…