Phelps v. CSX Transportation, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• under FELA, employer has duty to provide its employees reasonably safe work conditions, which duty extends to providing a workplace that does not aggravate a pre-existing injury
• When adopting FELA, Congress “was particularly concerned that the issues of whether there was employer fault and whether that fault played any part in the injury or death of the employee should be decided by the jury whenever fair-minded men could reach these conclusions on the evidence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).