{"id":5155,"date":"2012-12-04T11:56:41","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T19:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/?p=5155"},"modified":"2013-04-03T15:11:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T22:11:35","slug":"norfolk-southern-ordered-by-osha-to-pay-injured-railroad-worker-over-288000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/5155\/norfolk-southern-ordered-by-osha-to-pay-injured-railroad-worker-over-288000\/","title":{"rendered":"Norfolk Southern Ordered by OSHA to Pay Injured Railroad Worker Over $288,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NORFOLK, Va. &#8212; An injured railroad worker, who claimed that Norfolk Southern Railroad retaliated against him after he reported being injured on the job in Savannah, Ga., has been awarded more than $288,000 in an OSHA order against Norfolk Southern Corp.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-5159\" title=\"Norfolk Southern\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Norfolk-Southern.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"278\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The Virginian-Pilot reported that the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration&#8217;s order came in a whistleblower complaint where OSHA determined that Norfolk Southern violated the whistleblower protection provisions of the Federal Railroad Safety Act.<\/p>\n<p>Norfolk Southern Corp. plans to appeal the federal agency&#8217;s order requiring it to pay an injured worker more than $288,000.<\/p>\n<p>Norfolk Southern spokesman Robin Chapman told The Virginian-Pilot that OSHA&#8217;s investigation is flawed and one sided and they plan to appeal the federal agency&#8217;s order. He said the company hasn&#8217;t been permitted to question the worker under oath or cross examine any of his witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/pilotonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Virginian-Pilot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Posted by Gordon &#038;amp Elias, a FELA lawyer and <a title=\"Virginia railroad injury lawyer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/CM\/FELA\/Virginia-FELA-Overview.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"> Virginia railroad injury lawyer<\/a> who publishes train accidents and FELA legal news from across the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NORFOLK, Va. &#8212; An injured railroad worker, who claimed that Norfolk Southern Railroad retaliated against him after he reported being injured on the job in Savannah, Ga., has been awarded more than $288,000 in an OSHA order against Norfolk Southern Corp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,49],"tags":[55,281],"class_list":["post-5155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fela-law","category-norfolk-southern-railroad","category-virginia-railroad-news","tag-virginia-fela-lawyer","tag-virginia-railroad-injury-lawyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5155"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5568,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155\/revisions\/5568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}