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C ommonwealth O f K entucky C ourt O f A ppeals
NO. 2003-CA-001721-MR

EMMETT E. COOMER

APPELLANT

v.

APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT HONORABLE DENISE M. CLAYTON, JUDGE ACTION NO. 01-CI-006866

CSX TRANSPORTATION, INC.

APPELLEE

OPINION AFFIRMING ** ** ** ** ** BEFORE: BARBER, KNOPF, AND TACKETT, JUDGES. In October 2001, Emmett Coomer brought suit

KNOPF, JUDGE:

against CSX Transportation, Inc., a railroad company, under the Federal Employers' Liability Act ("FELA"),1 He alleged that the

company had negligently failed to provide him reasonably safe working conditions and that the negligence had caused him to develop bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome and ulnar neuropathy (a

1

45 U.S.C.

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