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Whether you work on the railroad or down a mine, there are a lot of visible threats to your health. There are quite a few invisible ones too.
Heavy diesel fumes may be visible at times to the naked eye but the real danger is the tiny but unseen particles that get stuck in the lungs of workers. A new study by the National Cancer Institute links diesel fumes to lung cancer in mines.
The study that began in 1992 looked at 12,35...
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FELA
A Federal Act that Protects Railroad Workers
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For more than a century railroad workers have been protected by the Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA), an act brought in after a terrible catalogue of deaths and injuries on America’s railroads.
The legislation followed a massive upsurge in railway building at the end of the 19th Century. While this boom fuelled America's economy, it was bought at a high price in terms of the number of railroad workers being injured...
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Ex-Railroad Worker is Awarded $4.5 Million over Painful Slip
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BODY – Tripping on the railroad may not seem like obvious grounds for a lawsuit against your employer.
But when the employer is a railroad company that has allowed weeds to grow so high that the dangers are not readily apparent, it’s the grounds for a multi-million dollar verdict, a jury in Roanoke, Virginia decided.
See this video of a Norfolk Southern derailment.
The jury awarded $4.5 million to former Norfolk Southern Corp...
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