In a new blog post to our firm’s Railroad Accident/FELA Lawyer Blog, attorney Randy Appleton reports on a fatal coal train accident that took the lives of two people who were driving near the scene of the wreck. To read more, click over to “Two Killed in Car Buried by Coal Spilled From Derailed Train…
In his latest post to our firm’s Railroad Accident/FELA Lawyers Blog, Randy Appleton reports on a maintenance accident that hospitalized several railroad employees with smoke inhalation. To read more, click over to “Amtrak Locomotive Fire Injures 3 Rail Yard Workers in Chicago.” EJL
In a new post to our firm’s Railroad Accident/FELA Lawyer Blog, my colleague Rick Shapiro reports on a deadly crash between two freight trains near Goodwell, OK. The cause of the crash is not known, but Rick notes that investigators and all railroads — not just UP — should suspect breakdowns in communications. To read…
Companies that made everything from brake pads and insulation to crayons containing asbestos have known for nearly 80 years that breathing in even small amounts of asbestos dust and fibers put people at risk for deadly lung diseases. Despite learning of asbestos dangers during the 1930s, railroads, shipbuilders and construction companies continued to use the…
It was revealed that this is a complete falsehood and many railroad workers have had their lives turned upside down because they breathed in asbestos fibers.