The Safety-appliance Laws, Ash-pan Law, Orders of the Commission Fixing United States Safety-appliance Standards and Plates Illustrating United States Safety-appliance Standards. 1946

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946 - 74 pages
 

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Page 6 - That any employee of any such common carrier who may be injured by any locomotive, car, or train In use contrary to the provision of this act shall not be deemed thereby to have assumed the risk thereby occasioned, although continuing In the employment of such carrier after the unlawful use of such locomotive, car. or train had been brought to his knowledge.
Page 3 - January, eighteen hundred and ninetyeight, it shall be unlawful for any such common carrier to haul or permit to be hauled or used on its line any car used in moving interstate traffic not equipped with couplers coupling automatically by impact, and which can be uncoupled without the necessity of men going between the ends of the cars.
Page 7 - An act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes and their locomotives with driving-wheel brakes, and for other purposes," approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninetythree, and amended April first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.
Page 4 - Commission, it shall be unlawful for any railroad company to use any car in interstate commerce that is not provided with secure grab irons or handholds in the ends and sides of each car for greater security to men in coupling and uncoupling cars.
Page 3 - That from and after the first day <T an?"rS brakls' of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, it shall be unlawful for t - any common carrier engaged in interstate commerce "^ by railroad to use on its line any locomotive engine in ° moving interstate traffic...
Page 5 - ... to be recovered in a suit or suits to be brought by the United States district attorney in the district court of the United States having jurisdiction in the locality where such violation shall have been committed...
Page 4 - ... any cars not equipped sufficiently, in accordance with the first section of this act, with such power or train brakes as will work and readily interchange with the brakes in use on its own cars, as required by this act.
Page 14 - An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto...
Page 11 - ... of the provisions of this act, shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each and every such violation...
Page 5 - July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, no cars, either loaded or unloaded, shall be used in interstate traffic which do not comply with the standard above provided for.

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