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  3. Train accidents and FELA
Railroad injury cases

The railroad has a file on every injury. It starts before the ED note.

Medrecords AI lines up the railroad's own file with the treating records: the injury report, the supervisor statements, the company medical exams, then every treating visit. Every entry links to its page. Negligence and causation stay with your experts.

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  • HIPAA, under a BAA
  • SOC 2
  • 100 pages a minute
  • First case is free on us
1 conductor, 2 filestap a point
Railroad file
Treating records
12 Feb 2025Supervisor statementRailroad file

"Employee not using 3-point contact."

p. 11conflicts with p. 8
Illustrative case. The worker, railroad, dates and pages are fictional.
3years

The time limit to bring a FELA claim.

45 U.S.C. §56
30days

Railroads report injuries to FRA within 30 days after the end of the month they happen.

49 CFR §225.11
0reduction

Where a safety statute violation contributed to the injury, the worker's own negligence does not reduce damages.

45 U.S.C. §53
100pages a minute

How fast Medrecords AI reads the file.

Medrecords AI
Where FELA cases turn

6 places the railroad looks first. The chronology gets you there before they do.

The railroad investigates its own injuries and keeps its own doctors. Its file often reaches the other side first. These are the points where it meets the treating records, each flagged with its page.

Railroad file

The injury report

The worker's own account, the supervisor's and any witness statements, side by side with the first medical note.

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Railroad file

The equipment

Every mention of the ladder, the grab iron, the brake or the handhold in the records. Safety appliance defects change the damages math.

45 U.S.C. §53
Railroad file

Company medical

Pre-employment and periodic exams, fitness for duty notes and return to work decisions, dated. The baseline the railroad will argue from.

baseline
Treating records

The first medical note

How the ED described the mechanism and the injury, quoted with the time of the note.

cited
Treating records

Restrictions and future care

Every work restriction and every note that predicts more treatment, collected for the damages case.

future care
Both

The records that never arrived

The FRA injury report, the equipment inspection, the company doctor's notes. Listed with the page that points to each one.

missing-records list
Sample output

What comes back: the railroad file and the treating records, every line cited.

DateSourceFindingPageFlag
14 Mar 2023Company physicalRight shoulder normal. Full range of motion.p. 3baseline
6 Feb 2025Employee injury reportFell from a railcar ladder when a grab iron came loose.p. 8cited
12 Feb 2025Supervisor statement"Employee not using 3-point contact."p. 11conflicts with p. 8
2 Jun 2025Company medicalReturn to work denied pending surgery.p. 20cited
Fictional case built for this page. Real output carries the same columns, with every page linked to the source PDF.
How it works

Send both files. Get 1 timeline back.

What you send

  • Injury reports, statements and investigation records
  • Company medical exams and fitness for duty records
  • ED, treating, surgical and therapy records
  • Billing ledgers and itemized statements
  • Any format: PDFs, scans, faxes, phone photos

What you get

  • The railroad file and the treating records on 1 timeline
  • Every account of the injury, side by side
  • The company medical baseline, dated
  • Restrictions and future care notes, collected
  • A list of records the file refers to but does not contain

We lay out the record. Negligence stays with you.

We place what the railroad file and the treating records say on 1 timeline, with pages. We do not decide whether the railroad was negligent, whether a safety statute was violated, or what caused the injury. Those belong to you and your experts.

HIPAA, under a signed BAAEvery file is handled under our Business Associate Agreement.
SOC 2Encryption in transit and at rest, and PHI access logging on every event.
Never trains a modelYour records never train any AI model, ours or anyone else’s.
Deleted after deliveryFiles are deleted 30 days after delivery, with an audit log of every access.
Questions

Train accident and FELA record review, answered.

Does this work for passengers and people hit at crossings?

Yes. The chronology is built for the person you represent. For a passenger or a crossing case the railroad file is replaced by the incident and police records you have.

Can you read company medical and fitness for duty records?

Yes. Pre-employment exams, periodic physicals and return to work decisions are read like any other record and set on the same timeline as the treating care.

Do you say whether a safety statute was violated?

No. We flag every mention of the equipment and its condition, with pages. Whether a violation occurred and what it means for damages is your call.

Do you retrieve records from providers?

No. Medrecords AI does not retrieve records from providers or facilities. You bring the records you already have, and review starts in minutes from upload.

Related case types

Workers' compBoat accidentsCrush injuriesFitness for dutyOccupational diseaseEvery case type

Send us 1 railroad file. The first case is free on us.

Book a short demo. After it we open trial access on one of your own cases, the first one free on us, with the chronology back page-cited.

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Sources

Every rule, regulation, statute and published standard named on this page is linked below to the text the body that issues it puts out, read on the date shown. Where a standard is sold rather than published, the link goes to its publisher's page for it. A few rules are named without a link, because no source we could read and confirm publishes them.