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"A man is suing his employer after sustaining injury while operating a locomotive engine.<br /><br />James Blankenship filed a lawsuit Feb. 6 in the Cook County Circuit Court against Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Co., citing the Federal Employers' Liability Act.<br /><br />According to the complaint, Blankenship was employed by Indiana Harbor as an engineer and stopped in a locomotive engine in Blue Island per his supervisor's orders on Feb. 19, 2011, when a cut of cars violently hit his train, causing serious injury to his neck and back.<br /><br />Blankenship is seeking more than $50,000 in damages and is being represented in the case by attorney George T. Brugess of Hoey and Farina P.C.<br /><br /><em>Cook County Circuit Court Case No. 2014L001218.</em><br /><br /><em>This is a report on a civil lawsuit filed in the Cook County Circuit Court. The details in this report come from an original complaint filed by a plaintiff. Please note, a complaint represents an accusation by a private individual, not the government. It is not an indication of guilt, and it only represents one side of the story.</em>"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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