(Source: North Platte Bulletin, August 10, 2013)
NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — In a long battle to get his job back, former Bailey Yard worker Brian Petersen was awarded damages Thursday of $325,000, when a federal judge ruled that he was wrongfully fired. Petersen, 29, was fired in 2009 after he stepped up on some potentially slippery Timken bearings to read the serial numbers on some stacked traction motors — a safety violation according to Union Pacific rules.
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