A thirty-year employee of Amtrak says he suffered a stroke at work and his employer did nothing to help him, Chicago Now reports.
Manuel Avelos says that on April 23, 2007, while working for Amtrak as a track worker machine operator, he started to exhibit symptoms of a stroke and did in fact suffer one.
The complaint states that for more than four hours, while Avelos suffered the stroke, Amtrak failed to institute any medical procedures or take him to an emergency room.
The complaint further states that Amtrak violated the Federal Employers' Liability Act when it, among other things, "failed to adopt and implement a policy for identifying the symptoms or suspected symptoms of a stroke."
The complaint also states that the defendant's acts or failure to act made it impossible to come within the time limit for TPA thrombolytic administration.
(This item appeared March 16, 2010, in Chicago Now.)
