Alice Butler and her daughter Glenda Poore were tragically killed by a Norfolk Southern train accident in the Stuarts Draft area of Waynesboro, Virginia (VA). The accident occurred at the railway crossing on Offliter Road near Route 340. My deepest condolences go out to Alice and Glenda’s friends and family. As an injury lawyer who…
According to authorities on Sunday night in Clayton, NC a man was hit and killed by a freight train located near Shotwell Rd. The victim’s name was not released. The train was carrying ethanol. However, there were no leaks, officials said. Because train wrecks usually cause widespread property damage as well as injury or death,…
18 people suffered minor injuries after an operator misjudged the stopping distance and hit a metal bumper, according to Boston.com. A thorough investigation needs to be conducted on the mental state of the operator and if we he was distracted. There’s a history of rail operators being distracted while conducting a train so it wouldn’t…
How liable are rail operators for the life-threatening illnesses their employees develop? This question is always difficult to answer because each case requires individual consideration. In what looks to be the latest opportunity to explore this issue, 25-year Union Pacific brakeman and conductor Brad Thompson has sued his former employer in Illinois (IL), claiming that…
My railroad injury attorney-partner, Richard N. Shapiro, posted a library article covering railroad workers developing cancers (lung, brain, colon, blood and others) after prolonged workplace exposures to radioactive/radiation substances (uranium or plutonium contaminated scrap metal and wastes). He relates the curernt results of various subpoenas and Freedom of Information Act requests.This is a real eye…