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At Vujasinovic & Beckcom, we pride ourselves on keeping up-to-date with important injury and accident developments in Texas and across the United States.  Here you'll find our thougths on a range of topics from auto and truck accidents to defective automobile and product cases to serious injury cases involving neck, back, brain and workplace accidents.

FELA & Railroad Injury

4/16/2012
Brian Beckcom
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Claremore Teen Dies After Being Struck By On-Coming Train

A sixteen-year-old from Claremore, Kansas is dead after being struck by a train. Christian Brashar was a freshman at Claremore High. He and another friend on a skateboard were trying to beat the oncom(...)

12/22/2011
Brian Beckcom
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Amtrak Train Collides With Truck Near Austin

On Sunday, an Amtrak train collided with a truck at a crossing near Austin, TX. The accident occurred near the intersection U.S 79 and Highway 130, west of downtown Hutton. A 44-year-old truck driver(...)

9/22/2011
Brian Beckcom
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Union Pacific Worker Killed While Inspecting Rails Near Abilene, Texas

A Union Pacific worker was struck by an oncoming vehicle outside of Abilene, Texas, on Sunday afternoon while inspecting the rails from a hi-rail vehicle. According to local news sources, 59-year-old(...)

1/6/2010
Patti Artavia
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Amtrack Train Derails

An Amtrak train derailed early this morning while on its way to Los Angeles.  The train derailed near Higginson, Arkansas around 3:00 a.m. Wednesday morning.  Thankfully, no injuries have be(...)

10/30/2009
Tom Foster
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FELA lawsuit underscores risk of spinal cord damage to rail workers

Union Pacific Railroad Company is facing a lawsuit from a worker alleging that he was injured after forced to repeatedly carry heavy objects.  The victim, a conductor named David Brinkley, claims(...)

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10/20/2009
Brian Beckcom
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Report your railroad accident injury to a supervisor immediately

One of the worst things you can do after being injured in a railroad accident on the job is failing to report your injury to management.  Sometimes, your supervisor or management may try to convi(...)

10/19/2009
Brian Beckcom
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Trolley accident injures 49, conductor was text messaging before crash

A Boston trolley accident happened after the conductor was text messaging his girlfriend, according to Boston.com. The conductor rear-ended another Green Line trolley, injuring 49 people and causing (...)

10/18/2009
Brian Beckcom
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Four major subway or commuter railroad accidents in the past 10 months in the U.S.

A recent railroad accident in San Francisco, CA marked the fourth major railroad injury accident in the past ten months, according to The New York Times. Forty-eight people were injured; four seriou(...)

10/17/2009
Brian Beckcom
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Train accident in San Francisco leaves 48 injured, four seriously

According to the New York Times, The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a railroad accident that injured dozens of passengers and the conductor in San Francisco, California. Accor(...)

10/16/2009
Brian Beckcom
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Texas man injured hip after jumping from moving train as part of job

According to the Southeast Texas Record, Glen Savoie of Bexar County recently filed suit against Union Pacific Railroad Co., after claiming that he was forced to jump on and off moving objects, causi(...)