{"id":3257,"date":"2014-03-10T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T15:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=3257"},"modified":"2019-10-28T10:35:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T10:35:51","slug":"jury-finds-shipper-worker-exposed-toxic-fumes-railyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/jury-finds-shipper-worker-exposed-toxic-fumes-railyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury Finds for Shipper in Worker Exposed to Toxic Fumes at Railyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In August 2008, 30-year-old Kevin Harrison was working for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nscorp.com\/content\/nscorp\/en.html\">Norfolk Southern Railway<\/a> when he was exposed to acid fumes from a leaking barrel at Norfolk\u2019s rail yard in Hammond, Ind.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The acid had been shipped from Michigan in an inter-modal container owned by the defendant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kline.com\/\">K Line America<\/a>, which is a subsidiary of a Japanese company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">One day earlier, the driver for the defendant trucking company, Mason Dixon Intermodal, had selected the K Line container from those available at the Mason &amp; Dixon\u2019s Lines Inc. yard in Dearborn, Mich.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Mason Dixon Intermodal driver inspected the interior of the container and then drove it to the loading dock of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beaverpackaging.com\/\">Beaver Packaging &amp; Crating<\/a>, where Beaver employees loaded 40- to 55-gallon polymer drums filled with 30 percent strength acetic acid into the inter-modal container.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/jury-finds-shipper-worker-exposed-toxic-fumes-railyard\/#more-3257\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August 2008, 30-year-old Kevin Harrison was working for Norfolk Southern Railway when he was exposed to acid fumes from a leaking barrel at Norfolk\u2019s rail yard in Hammond, Ind.\u00a0 The acid had been shipped from Michigan in an inter-modal container owned by the defendant K Line America, which is a subsidiary of a Japanese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[84,8,111,119,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemical-exposure-injuries","category-forklift-truck-injuries","category-semi-trailer-truck-accidents","category-toxic-chemicals","category-work-injuries"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jury Finds for Shipper in Worker Exposed to Toxic Fumes at Railyard &#8212; 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