WILLIAMSON A widow is suing Norfolk Southern Railway Company for her late husband s cancer and death.
Elva Robertson s late husband, Freddie Robertson, was employed by Norfolk from 1970 until 1996, and during that time he was exposed to diesel exhaust and fumes, as well as second-hand smoke, according to a complaint filed in Mingo Circuit Court.
Elva Robertson claims her late husband developed lung cancer and it metastasized to his brain because of the defendant s utilization of known cancer-causing materials in its day-to-day operations. Giatras
Norfolk failed to provide Freddie Robertson with a safe place to work and failed to monitor the diesel locomotives, facilities, equipment and other areas for diesel exhaust and second-hand smoke, according to the suit.