Two roads were closed July 15 in Wytheville Virginia (VA) after a serious train derailment. A total of 14 cars derailed Monday night at 6:15 pm in Wytheville at the intersection of Grayson Turnpike and Old Stage Road. The train is owned by Norfolk Southern, and at press time, three of the cars had been…
How well would you work if you had a camera pointed at you all day long? Probably not very well. Now many hardworking railroad engineers may be forced to do just that. In what feels like an invasion of privacy the federal government is now considering installing inward-facing video cameras in locomotives due to the…
In a decision that the plaintiff rail employee’s attorney Charles Goetsch is calling the first of its kind, a jury in New Haven, Connecticut (CT), on March 22, 2012, awarded $1 million in punitive damages to a Metro-North commuter railroad trackman who was fired shortly after reporting a serious on-the-job toe injury. Jurors considered the…
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…
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…