Eastern Railroad Discussion > RR Fatality on NS

Yesterday in Gang Mills Yard (Corning, NY), an NS employee fell 9 feet to his death while working on a rail-crane. Apparently a hydraulic hose burst, spewed fluid and this poor fellow slipped on it and fell, sustaining fatal head injuries... Believe I read he was 55.

As always, sorry to hear about it, thoughts and prayers to the family. And to our other brothers, be careful out there, especially this time of year.

'Spatcher out...

The name of the employee who died in the fall was Donald L. Gunn of Cameron, NY. My condolences to his family.

My deepest condolences to the family of this NS employee. Another tragic loss of a career RR worker performing his duties.

Would advise the family to get a good lawyer quick, before =NS legal dept. claims this man was a trespasser.

Anvilhead Wrote:
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> Would advise the family to get a good lawyer
> quick, before =NS legal dept. claims this man was
> a trespasser.


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Anvilhead, I do not think this comment was necessary.

Rathole Wrote:

Anvilhead Wrote:
Would advise the family to get a good lawyer
quick, before =NS legal dept. claims this man
was
a trespasser.
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Anvilhead, I do not think this comment was
necessary.


Really Rathole?

Try this.

1. A fellow employee working overtime after his regular shift in the car shop cuts off a finger while performing clean up work. The railroad takes the position that he wasn't authorized to be there because his regular shift had ended, therefore they aren't liable, even though foreman authorized the OT.

2. Another employee, an engineer 33 years of age, 3 young kids at home, falls off a locomotive walkway, lands on a rail and breaks his back. Now paralyzed from the chest down, his wife wheels him in to the claims adjuster's office to settle. Big hearted adjuster offers him $10,000, maintaining that employee's job was inside the cab, not out on the walkway. Employee tells adjuster to step just a bit closer, so that he can get his still-working arms and hands around his scrawny neck.........employee later died as a result of injuries.

3. Deadheading crewman dies after falling off a moving locomotive while enroute his home terminal. RR maintains he had no business being there, i.e. a trespasser.

Unless you've worked for a RR and have seen this for yourself you won't believe it. Good counsel is a MUST in this case. RR's have no conscience whatsoever.

Anvilhead Wrote:
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> Rathole Wrote:
>
> Anvilhead Wrote:
> Would advise the family to get a good lawyer
> quick, before =NS legal dept. claims this man
> was
> a trespasser.
> =================================================
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> Anvilhead, I do not think this comment was
> necessary.
>
>
> Really Rathole?
>
> Try this.
>
> 1. A fellow employee working overtime after his
> regular shift in the car shop cuts off a finger
> while performing clean up work. The railroad
> takes the position that he wasn't authorized to be
> there because his regular shift had ended,
> therefore they aren't liable, even though foreman
> authorized the OT.
>
> 2. Another employee, an engineer 33 years of age,
> 3 young kids at home, falls off a locomotive
> walkway, lands on a rail and breaks his back. Now
> paralyzed from the chest down, his wife wheels him
> in to the claims adjuster's office to settle. Big
> hearted adjuster offers him $10,000, maintaining
> that employee's job was inside the cab, not out on
> the walkway. Employee tells adjuster to step just
> a bit closer, so that he can get his still-working
> arms and hands around his scrawny
> neck.........employee later died as a result of
> injuries.
>
> 3. Deadheading crewman dies after falling off a
> moving locomotive while enroute his home terminal.
> RR maintains he had no business being there, i.e.
> a trespasser.
>
> Unless you've worked for a RR and have seen this
> for yourself you won't believe it. Good counsel
> is a MUST in this case. RR's have no conscience
> whatsoever.
Keep em honest Anvilhead, you speak the gospel!

Believe me, folks, this "to-Hell-with-the-employees" stuff is not confined to railroads. Both my late wife and present wife went through this same s**t at the hands of a dept. store chain and a grocery wholesaler, respectively. And I retired from a gov't. agcy. that had been taken over by another bunch of neo-Nazi s.o.b.'s. Somehow, after decades of gains by working men and women, beginning under F.D.R., the pendulum has been allowed to swing back to the point where the people who actually make the business or agency function are targets to be mercilessly harrassed by ego-driven creeps seeking to line their own pockets, regardless of what that does to the workings of the institution. If we do not find a way to reverse this trend, just imagine what it will be like for our kids and grandchildren. Damn.....