                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

LIABILITY OF RAILROADS FOR INJURY TO CERTAIN EMPLOYEES (§ 8.01-57)

Every common carrier by railroad engaged in intrastate commerce shall be liable
in damages to any of its employees suffering injury while employed by such
carrier or, in the case of the death of any such employee, to his personal
representative, for such injury or death, resulting in whole or in part from the
wrongful act or neglect of any of its officers, agents, servants, or employees,
or by reason of any defect, or insufficiency due to its neglect in its cars,
engines, appliances, machinery, track, roadbed, works, boats, wharves or other
equipment, except when such employee is injured while engaged in interstate
commerce, and except when such employee is injured in the course of his regular
employment and such regular employment does not expose such employee to the
hazards incident to the maintenance, use and operation of such railroad. If the
action be for the death of an employee, §§ 8.01-50 through 8.01-56 shall apply
thereto.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 8-641; 1954, c. 614; 1977, c. 617.