§60 Penalty for Suppression of Voluntary Information Incident to Accidents; Separability

Summary

Makes it illegal for any rule, contract, or action to stop employees of any common carrier from voluntarily telling a person in interest the facts about an employee’s injury or death. Anyone who threatens, tries to stop, fires, or disciplines an employee for giving such information can be fined up to $1,000, jailed up to one year, or both, for each offense. Rules about information in the carrier’s files or other privileged or confidential reports are not affected. If a court throws out part of the law, the rest still stays in effect.