Legal Opinion
Belisle v. BNSF Railway Co.
District Court, D. Kansas
Decided March 9, 2010No. Case 08-2087-EFMPublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
ERIC F. MELGREN, District Judge.
On March 3, 2007, Belisle was employed by BNSF as a brakeman for a train that was preparing to depart its Newton, Kansas yard. As part of his duties, Belisle was assigned the task of preparing the end of the train for departure, which included, among other tasks, the installation, arming, and testing of a turbine powered end-of-train device (“ETD”), which attaches to the last car on the train. The train on which Belisle was working was parked on one of two east-west main track lines located on the north side of BNSF’s Newton yard (“Main 2”).…
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