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Fired PAR foreman awarded $400K by Maine jury

Guilford Rail System changed its name to Pan Am Railways in 2006. Discussion relating to the current operations of the Boston & Maine, the Maine Central, and the Springfield Terminal railroads (as well as the Delaware & Hudson while it was under Guilford control until 1988). Official site can be found here: PANAMRAILWAYS.COM.

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Fired PAR foreman awarded $400K by Maine jury

  by MEC407
 
From The Portland Press Herald:
The Portland Press Herald wrote:A federal jury in Maine this week awarded a former foreman for Springfield Terminal Railway Co. $400,000 after finding that he was wrongfully fired for protesting a supervisor’s orders to force an untrained worker to clean up a 2011 chemical spill in North Yarmouth.
. . .
Worcester, who had worked in the railway’s signal department for 16 years, filed a federal whistleblower complaint, then a federal lawsuit against the company after being fired on Nov. 28, 2011.
. . .
“Mr. Worcester was terminated for doing what he felt necessary to protect the safety of an employee under his charge until he could get answers showing the safety concerns were being met,” Wietzke said in a 2012 whistleblower complaint to the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
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