Tresspassers on a railway
Employees of railway companies who witness death or injury of trespassers on a railway line may be entitled to compensation for the mental injury of witnessing such an incident.
For example, the driver of a train may witness a suicide by someone sepping out in front of a train.
Also, compensation may be payable to those who are involved in the immediate aftermath of such an incident, or those who discover a body on the line or nearby.
This type of compensation is based on mental injury and will have to be serious enough to qualify for a Level 1 award.
For aditional information click to http://www.samaritans.org/pdf/Samaritans-ReducingSuicideTrain.pdf and http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3996727.stm
Further, for an interesting article on psychiatric injury click to 'Liability for psychiatric illness' by Professor Jones of Liverpool University http://webjcli.ncl.ac.uk/articles4/jones4.rtf
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