5th Cir. Rules for Railroad in Death of Worker Crushed by Cars

The estate for a worker who was crushed to death in an August 2015 train coupling accident isn’t entitled to damages from Alabama Great Southern Railroad Co., a divided Fifth Circuit ruled.

Gregory Miller was killed when he stepped between two railroad cars during a “rolling coupling” in which a number of cars were coupled at the same time.

A lower federal court properly concluded that Miller’s failure to follow the required safety regimen before going between the rail cars was the sole proximate cause of his death, a majority of a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals ...