| Locomotive Engineer With
Severed Finger Suing LIRR Is Kept On Schedule
By SDNY Judge Daniels
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 17 – Elmo John Wieman was
working as a locomotive
engineer on a Long Island
Railroad Company train near
Woodside, Queen on September
4, 2016 "when the cab door
released without warning,
slamming [his] left
hand/fingers in the frame of
the cab door, while also
striking plaintiff's left
elbow and wrist."
While the major physical harm
was a "severed left ring
finger," the elbow injury
would rear its head on
December 17, 2019.
In a conference that day
before Judge George B. Daniels
of the U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York, the parties asked for
more time.
Why? The elbow
injury has gotten worse and
requires more
discovery. The
case, like many railroad cases
in the SDNY, is under the
Federal Employers' Liability
Act, 45 USC Section 51 et seq.
(FELA); it also cites the
Locomotive Inspection Act.
Judge Daniels expressed
sympathy, but kept March 10,
2020 as the final pre-trial
conference. The case is Wieman
v. Long Island Railroad
Company, 19-cr-7096 (Daniels).
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