When a railroad worker for CSX, Norfolk Southern, Burlington Northern Santa Fe or any other rail company suffers an injury, there is plenty of paperwork. One of the documents an injured rail employee will have to fill out is an injury/illness report form. Take a look at the CSX injury report form here. It…
A 19-year-old appears to have been temporarily blinded by the sun before driving into the path of a freight train and losing her life at a railroad crossing just outside of Harrodsburg, Kentucky (KY). The fatal collision occurred October 16, 2011, along tracks owned by Norfolk Southern. Television station Lex18 reported that the crossing where…
When a loved one dies suddenly in a train accident there are many questions that the family asks.
Norfolk Virginia, (VA) will soon welcome passenger rail back to the area, beginning with one train a day departing the Harbor Park area in the early morning for Richmond and then on to Washington, DC, and poits north. As a Virginia (VA) railroad accident attorney and a lifelong resident of Hampton Roads, I’m all for expanding…
Canadian National Railway has agreed to pay members of a Rockford, Illinois (IL), family a total of $36 million in settlements for wrongful death and injury claims stemming from a derailment and fire that investigators have linked to negligence by the railroad and its train crew. According to a detailed recreation of the June 19,…