Railroads and workplace safety
Plaintiff must prove the following essential elements to sustain a claim for FELA negligence, causation and personal injury defendant: (a)Negligent maintenance of safety at the work place (b)Causation—no matter how slight—between that negligence and damages (c)personal injury damages.
Railroad companies continually use public and private property to organize work crews and park trucks and equipment. They do this without paying for the use or getting permission. This might save the company money but subjects the workers that can not be properly supervised or assured to be safe.
Most recently I tried to successful conclusion a FELA (federal employers liability act) case for a Maintenance of Way worker who fell into a man hole partially obscured by snow. The unsupervised property under a bridge, owned by a small town, was not supervised or watched. The railroad company merely instructed its employee to pick up a truck left there by another crew. In the interum some vandals stole the man hole cover...an act that would not have happened on guarded railroad property.
See http://www.bailey-law.com/lawyer-attorney-1215842.html concerning FELA law.