Court Opinion

ID: 9475366
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 05:25:05.149915+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:44:40.311075
License: Public Domain

HUNTER, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
We agree with the majority that the Safety Appliance Act applies in this case. Although Mr. Beissel was injured when the vehicle in question, the high/rail car, was not on the railroad tracks, the vehicle was subject to the requirements of the Act because it was used both on and off the tracks. We write separately to note that we do not agree with the majority’s view that the vehicle is subject to the requirements of the Act simply because its use off the track was an integral part of the railroad carrier’s operation. A vehicle that was used as an integral part of the operation but that was never used on the tracks, would not, in our view, be covered by the Act.