December 4, 2013 | CN, Headlines, Whistleblower
(Source: U.S. Department of Labor press release, December 3, 2013) HOMEWOOD, Ill. — Illinois Central Railroad Co. has been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for one willful and six serious safety violations...
September 9, 2013 | Headlines, Short Line, Whistleblower
(Source: U.S. Department of Labor press release, September 3, 2013) BOSTON, Mass. — The U.S. Department of Labor has ordered Pan Am Railways Inc. to pay $50,000 in compensatory and punitive damages, as well as take corrective action, on behalf of an injured worker....
September 9, 2013 | CN, Headlines, Whistleblower
(Source: U.S. Department of Labor press release, August 20, 2013) CHICAGO — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has ordered two subsidiaries of Canadian National Railway to pay over $263,000 in back wages, interest,...
August 13, 2013 | GTW, Headlines, Whistleblower
(Source: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) press release, June 27, 2013) FERNDALE, Mich. — Grand Trunk Western Railway Co. violated the Federal Railroad Safety Act when a carman was suspended following a workplace injury, the U.S. Department of...
March 1, 2013 | Headlines, UP, Whistleblower
Order is OSHA’s third in 13 months against railroad’s Pocatello, Idaho, operations (Source: U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) press release, February 28, 2013) SEATTLE, Wash. — The U.S. Department of...
March 1, 2013 | Headlines, NS, Whistleblower
(Source: U.S. Department of Labor press release, February 28, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Norfolk Southern Railway Co. has been ordered to pay $1,121,099 to three workers following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health...
February 28, 2013 | Headlines, Whistleblower
(Source: Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Division press release, February 27, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration today issued two more significant findings against the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) for violating the...
January 15, 2013 | News, Whistleblower
CLEVELAND, January 15 — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced today that the agency has signed an accord with BNSF Railway Co. (BNSF), under which the railroad has agreed to voluntarily revise several personnel...
December 4, 2012 | Headlines, NS, Whistleblower
(Source: Savannah Morning News, December 2, 2012) Norfolk Southern Railway Co. has been ordered to pay a Savannah-based employee $288,700 for punishing him because he said he was hurt on the job. The federal government says the employee, whose name it withheld, was...
August 29, 2012 | Headlines, NS, Whistleblower
(Source: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) press release, August 28, 2012) CHICAGO — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found that Norfolk Southern Railway Co. violated the whistleblower protection...
