Minnesota Statutes

Minn. Stat. § 609.849 (2026)

Railroad That Obstructs Treatment Of Injured Worker

✓ current as of May 2026

Find cases: SyfertCases citing this section MN-REVrevisor.mn.gov (official) Justiaon Justia CornellLII Search CasesGoogle Scholar

(a) It shall be unlawful for a railroad or person employed by a railroad to intentionally:

(1) deny, delay, or interfere with medical treatment or first aid treatment to an employee of a railroad who has been injured during employment; or

(2) discipline, harass, or intimidate an employee to discourage the employee from receiving medical attention or threaten to discipline an employee who has been injured during employment for requesting medical treatment or first aid treatment.

(b) Nothing in this section shall deny a railroad company or railroad employee from making a reasonable inquiry of an injured employee about the circumstance of an injury in order to gather information necessary to identify a safety hazard.

(d) A railroad or a person convicted of a violation of paragraph (a), clause (1) or (2), is guilty of a misdemeanor and may be fined not more than $1,000 but is not subject to an incarcerative sanction.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 3 cases, 2008–2015 · leading case: Port Auth. Trans-Hudson Corp. v. Sec'y, United States Dep't of Labor, 776 F.3d 157 (3rd Cir. 2015).

Sort: Relevance Newest Treatment

Port Auth. Trans-Hudson Corp. v. Sec'y, United States Dep't of Labor, 776 F.3d 157 (3rd Cir. 2015). “2007); Minn.Stat. § 609.849, held partially preempted, in BNSF Ry.”

BNSF Ry. Co. v. Swanson, 533 F.3d 618 (8th Cir. 2008). “Minn.Stat. § 609.849. In their declaratory judgment action, the railroads claimed that federal legislation already covered the subject matter addressed by the Minnesota statute.”

BNSF Ry. Co. v. Lori Swanson (8th Cir. 2008). “Minn. Stat. § 609.849 . In their declaratory judgment action, the railroads claimed that federal legislation already covered the subject matter addressed by the Minnesota statute.”

Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.