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Denver Jury Awards Injured Rail Worker $6 Million.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2002

By Howard Pankratz, The Denver Post Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 21--A longtime Union Pacific employee who fell down a steep flight of stairs inside a locomotive was awarded $6 million Thursday at a trial in which the man claimed the railroad intentionally destroyed important evidence.

The Denver jury took only two hours to return its verdict in the case of Frank Aloi, a 53-year-old freight conductor whose job it was to couple and uncouple train cars and throw track switches.

Aloi claimed he was totally disabled from injuries to his shoulder, neck and lower back sustained during the fall. He also said he suffered a mild traumatic brain injury.

"All I want is my health back," he said Friday. "The money has not cured...

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