§60 Penalty for suppression of voluntary information incident to accidents; separability

Summary

Makes any contract, rule, or practice invalid if it tries to stop a common carrier’s employee from voluntarily telling a person in interest the facts about a worker’s injury or death. Anyone who uses threats, orders, rules, contracts, or who fires or punishes an employee for voluntarily giving such information can be fined up to $1,000, jailed up to one year, or both, for each offense. It does not affect rules about information kept in the carrier’s official files or other privileged or confidential reports. If one part of the law is held invalid for some people or situations, the rest stays in effect.