Ind. Code § 8-8-1-14

Current through P.L. 171-2024
Section 8-8-1-14 - Employees; death or personal injury; assumption of risk; contributory negligence

Any employee of any such common carrier who may be killed or injured by any locomotive, tender, car, similar vehicle, or train in use contrary to the provisions of this chapter, or who shall be killed or injured on account of any of the structures forbidden in sections 11 and 12 of this chapter, 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, tender, car, similar vehicle, or train, or the maintenance of such unlawful structures named in sections 11 and 12 of this chapter had been brought to his knowledge, nor shall any such employee be held as having contributed to his injury in any case where the carrier shall have violated any of the provisions of this chapter when such violation contributed to the death or injury of any such employee.

IC 8-8-1-14

(Formerly: Acts 1907, c.118, s.14.) As amended by P.L. 62-1984, SEC.112.