Sentences with phrase «railroad worker at»

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Ottley worked at whatever jobs he could find during the Depression» as a bellhop, railroad porter, and social worker» until he found his true calling as a writer.

While working on the Santa Fe Railroad in 1922, Founder Thomas Serrato packed lunches that invoked jealousy among other workers — so much so that he began sharing, at the request of his fellow employees.

Railroad workers have been striking since mid-April, angry at plans to freeze salaries, cut over 120,000 jobs, and employ more private contractors.

The MTA will audit safety procedures at the Long Island Rail Road after an NTSB report criticized the railroad for lax enforcement of rules that could have saved the life of a worker struck by a train last June, railroad officials said.

Delivery truck drivers, those who unload merchandise on loading docks, and railroad industry workers can be at risk for COPD.

And for all its attempts at historical relevance (the story explores everything from the exploitation of Chinese workers to build the railroads to Native American genocide), there's no gravity or weight to anything in The Lone Ranger.

After periodically studying at the Art Institute of Indianapolis and at the Art Students League with William Merritt Chase, Connaway traveled throughout the United States taking labor - intensive jobs as a railroad worker, a doryman in a fishing fleet, and a cook at a remote lumber camp.

[There are] fossils of unfathomable age, and fantastical trees such as Cedar of Lebanon, the Phoenix Palm, and the Methuselah tree, thought to be one of the oldest trees in the World at 4,847 years of age, as well as a railroad tie taken from the Panama Canal Railway, which claimed the lives of between 5,000 to 10,000 workers over its 50 year construction, and wood is salvaged from the remnants of the iconic Atlantic City boardwalk devastated by Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

Workers in the following industries and professions have been historically at high risk: asbestos mining; manufacturing of asbestos - containing products such as insulation, piping, and ceiling and flooring materials; shipbuilding; welding, plumbing, pipe fitting and steam fitting; railroads; building demolition; and construction.

Unlike workers» compensation, FELA requires that the railroad company or its employees be at fault for a railroad worker accident through failure to provide a safe place to work.

Most people who are injured at work are covered by a state's workers compensation laws, but this is not the case for Railroad workers who are involved in an accident.