CSX Job Injuries Hidden, Report Says

Click title for full report link. CSX Job Injuries Hidden, Report Says By LINDSAY PETERSON The Tampa Tribune Published: May 2, 2008 Related Links Read The Report TAMPA - Bobby Lightfoot braced himself as the train engineer hit the brakes in the Polk County rail yard, but the hard stop rippled through the railroad cars to where Lightfoot stood, throwing him over a railing and onto the pavement 8 feet below. On the way to Brandon Regional Hospital later, one of Lightfoot's bosses at CSX Transportation told him what to do - to keep the company from having to report his injury to the federal government. "Don't let them give you a prescription," Lightfoot says he was told. When a nurse gave him a sling, he gave it back. Not because he didn't need it but because the sling would also trigger the reporting requirement. "If my supervisors saw me in that, they'd go into orbit," he said.