FELA Lawyer News Blog

Archive for March, 2012

PAXTON, TX – According to Sheriff Newton Johnson of the Shelby County Sheriff’s Department, a Union Pacific train derailed on Sunday morning, March 25 at approximately 8:51 a.m on Highway 84 in Paxton, Texas.

Rail tanker lays upside down in a ditch alongside the tracks that run next to Highway 84 after a Union Pacific train derailment in Paxton, TX on Sunday, March 25, 2012. Photo: Scott Flowers

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GRAND FORKS, ND – A body was discovered Saturday morning, March 23 by a BNSF railroad conductor near the train tracks located west of the Columbia Road overpass in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

Location where body was found by BNSF conductor on March 23, 2012. PHOTO: WDAZ-TV

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Union Pacific has been ordered by the U.S. Labor Department to pay an employee $24,823 for forcing him to continue working while sick.

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WHEATON, IL. – The driver of a 2005 Jeep Liberty SUV collided with a Union Pacific train on Tuesday, March 13, and was taken to the Central DuPage Hospital where he was treated for minor injuries.

An SUV crashed into a Union Pacific freight train and rolled over injuring the 52 year old driver in Wheaton, IL on March 13, 2012. Photo credit: Charlotte Eriksen

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BARTOW, FL – A fiery crash near Bartow, Florida claimed the life of a truck driver when the fuel tanker truck he was driving collided with a CSX freight train.

Billowing smoke from fiery tanker crash with CSX train near Bartow, FL could be seen for miles.

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ABBEVILLE COUNTY, S.C. – A CSX train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed Thursday morning in Abbeville, South Carolina.

A CSX train carrying hazardous materials derailed in Abbeville, SC in the southwest part of town on Thursday, March 8, 2012.

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LANCASTER, OH – An Indiana & Ohio train derailed at 7:10 a.m. Thursday morning on March 1, in Lancaster, Ohio when the train engine hit a derailer, sending it and possibly one other car off a track, spilling between 900 and 1,500 gallons of fuel near the Hocking River.

Maureen Kocot at 10TV News points out the derailer and warning flag used to alert the train conductor before the derailment in Lancaster, OH on March 1, 2012.

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