Journal of Political Economy Vol. 24 No. 8 1916
When A Railroad Employee is Hurt: The Legal Tangle
Abstract
The calendar year I914, the last for which complete statistics are available, saw more than 2,500 railroad employees either killed outright or so severely injured that they died within twenty-four hours; while nearly sixty times that number were so injured as not to be able to work for at least three days out of the ten immediately following the accident. Of the accidents giving rise to these injuries, I3,000 were classed as train accidents, in most or all of which damage of some sort was done to the equipment of the road. Damaged engines were hauled into the shops to be repaired, damaged cars likewise, and the cost charged up to operating expenses as a matter of course. But what of the damaged men?
- DOI
- 10.1086/252874
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 805-810
- Language
- en
- Sources
- openalex crossref