Prata v. National Railroad Passenger Corp.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Lynch, J.
The plaintiff Anthony Praia, an employee of the defendant Amtrak, had his right hand blown off by a railroad torpedo. A railroad torpedo is a coated brown paper package, two inches square and a half inch thick, with a strip of metal running through it to hold it in place on a railroad track. The package contains an explosive charge of chemicals and sand. When it is affixed to a track it is detonated—in a sense, ignited—by the weight of the train mixing the sand with the chemicals. The explosion sounds a warning of trouble ahead to the engineer.
Praia and his wife…
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