10th Circuit Reverses Dismissal Of Engineer’s Suit Over Defective Seat

Mealey's (December 17, 2018, 6:53 PM EST) -- DENVER — A lower court should have focused its analysis on a locomotive engineer’s chair, not on its component parts, such as the adjustment mechanism, the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held Dec. 3, reversing the dismissal of a railroad engineer’s claims that he injured himself when he tried to adjust his seat (George W. Straub IV v. BNSF Railway Co., No. 17-1050, 10th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 33816)....