I'm Nick Thompson a partner at Casey Jones law we're a firm dedicated to representing Railroad employees. Part of representing railroad employees is not just helping them after the fact. It's also educating them on their rights. For that reason we're making a series of videos on the questions we're most often ask. We hope they help.

I'm now filling out a personal injury report form, what should I know? There are three questions on there the purpose of which are designed to minimize a railroad’s exposure. In other words, minimize the amount they compensate you for your injury.  They are: is there something I could have done to avoid this injury? Was the injury caused by somebody else? Was the injury due to faulty equipment procedures or an unsafe workplace?

Well we know that the injury was due to somebody else that there's nothing you could have done to avoid the injury and that it was caused by an unsafe workplace improper procedures or faulty equipment. Well how do we know that? Because nobody purposely gets hurt and the railroad controls the manner, mechanism, and means of production. They're the ones that provide the training. They're the ones that require you to work at a certain speed. So even when an injury results 100% from your own mistake, who's ultimately at fault? The railroads who trained you, the railroads who pushed too hard. It's the railroad's fault. Always