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EICHEN LEVINSON & CRUTCHLOW, LLP
40 Ethel Road
Edison, New Jersey 08817
Tel. (732) 777-0100
Fax (732) 248-8273

Protecting Individuals Harmed in Railroad Accidents

The number of people traveling by rail between 1889 and 1920 significantly increased. Subsequently dangers to railroad workers also increased. In the years between 1889 and 1920, railroad use in this country expanded six-fold. With this expansion, the dangers to the railroad worker increased. Every day thousands of workers of the railroads and buses are injured, maimed, and killed due to carelessness about railroads. To protect workers, Congress deferred to the experience of states that had already passed legislation similar to FELA to protect railroad workers The assumption was that FELA would lead to increased safety on the railroad. Justice Douglas of the Supreme Court put it best when he wrote: "[T]he FELA was designed to put on the railroad industry some of the cost for the legs, eyes, arms, and lives which it consumed in its operations."

EICHEN LEVINSON & CRUTCHLOW, LLP is a leader in aggressively pursuing railroad cases (and bus operators and mechanics) for workers who were killed, maimed or injured at work.

On August 10, 2005, EICHEN LEVINSON & CRUTCHLOW, LLP obtained the largest jury verdict in New Jersey history for a worker killed by exposure to chemical toxins (asbestos, silica, metal dust, and diesel exhaust) on the railroad.

If you or a loved one has been injured or killed while working for New Jersey Transit or Conrail please contact us so we may investigate your case.

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