“It’s happening over and over again. I’d hate for someone else to lose their loved one,” Sherita Fields said.
An Alabama woman whose husband was decapitated while training to be a Norfolk Southern conductor last year has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the embattled rail company.
He was in the cab with another conductor when their train passed by a parked freight car with a protruding beam that crashed through the window and struck Griffin in the head, killing him,Griffin’s widow, Sherita Fields, filed the suit against Norfolk Southern, U.S. Pipe Fabrication and others for wrongful death in in Jefferson County Circuit Court in January.
Walter James Griffin III, 43, was killed on Dec. 13 when a protruding beam from a parked freight car crashed through the cab of his passing Norfolk Southern train.Griffin’s widow said he loved working for Norfolk Southern and had been at the company for six months before his death.“I see how it was described as a freak accident, but I do not think that is a proper characterization of it,” Griffin family attorney David Brown.
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