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"A railroad worker who sustained severe injuries while working for Union Pacific (UP) filed a Federal Employers' Liability Act suit in Madison County Circuit Court July 27, alleging his employer failed to provide him a safe place to work.<br /><br />Joseph Patrick Cullivan claims the injuries he sustained are so severe that he is suffering from flashbacks and may have sustained permanent psychological and emotional damages.<br /><br />According to Cullivan, he was operating a grapple boom truck over railroad tracks in Wood River as a maintenance of way employee when he was struck violently by a Federal Railroad Administrative Safety Vehicle operated by UP.<br /><br />Cullivan claims UP negligently failed to provide him with safe conditions, failed to provide safe equipment and help, failed to provide a reasonably safe crossing and failed to provide him supervision.<br /><br />He claims the collision caused injuries to his back, neck, chest, bladder, kidneys, head, face, legs, arms and shoulders causing lost wages, medical expenses and the loss of a normal life.<br /><br />Represented by Daniel Francis of St. Louis, Cullivan is seeking damages a \"fair and reasonable under the circumstances in excess of $1 million.\"<br /><br />The case has been assigned to Circuit Judge Daniel Stack.<br /><br /><i>07 L 677</i><br />"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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