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[CITE: 45USC54]

 
                           TITLE 45--RAILROADS
 
             CHAPTER 2--LIABILITY FOR INJURIES TO EMPLOYEES
 
Sec. 54. Assumption of risks of employment

    In any action brought against any common carrier under or by virtue 
of any of the provisions of this chapter to recover damages for injuries 
to, or the death of, any of its employees, such employee shall not be 
held to have assumed the risks of his employment in any case where such 
injury or death resulted in whole or in part from the negligence of any 
of the officers, agents, or employees of such carrier; and no employee 
shall be held to have assumed the risks of his employment in any case 
where the violation by such common carrier of any statute enacted for 
the safety of employees contributed to the injury or death of such 
employee.

(Apr. 22, 1908, ch. 149, Sec. 4, 35 Stat. 66; Aug. 11, 1939, ch. 685, 
Sec. 1, 53 Stat. 1404.)


                               Amendments

    1939--Act Aug. 11, 1939, inserted ``where such injury or death 
resulted in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, 
agents, or employees of such carrier; and no employee shall be held to 
have assumed the risks of his employment in any case'' after ``of his 
employment in any case''.


                            Cross References

    Assumption of risk by employees, see section 20304 of Title 49, 
Transportation.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 54a of this title.
