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ARTICLE IX - OFF-TRACK VEHICLE ACCIDENT BENEFITS
Article XI(b) of the July 17, 1968 Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Agreement, Article IX(b) of the July 29, 1968 Switchmen's Union of North
America Agreement, Article IX(b) of the September 14, 1968 Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen Agreement, Article V(b) of the March 19, 1969
United Transportation Union (C) Agreement and Article V(b) of the April 15,
1969 United Transportation Union (E) Agreement, as amended by Article XIII of
the August 25, 1978 United Transportation Union Agreement, are further amended
as follows effective on the date of this Agreement.
Section 1
Paragraph(b)(1) - Accidental Death or Dismemberment of the above-referenced
Agreement provisions is amended to read as follows:
"(1) Accidental Death or Dismemberment
The carrier will provide for loss of life or dismemberment occurring within
120 days after date of an accident covered in paragraph (a):
| Loss of Life |
$300,000 |
| Loss of Both Hands |
$300,000 |
| Loss of Both Feet |
$300,000 |
| Loss of Sight of Both Eyes |
$300,000 |
| Lossof One Hand and One Foot |
$300,000 |
| Loss of One Hand and Sight of One Eye |
$300,000 |
| Loss of One Foot and Sight of One Eye |
$300,000 |
| Loss of One Hand or One Foot or Sight of One Eye |
$150,000 |
"Loss" shall mean, with regard to hands and feet, dismemberment by
severance through or above wrist or ankle joints; with regard to eyes, entire
and irrecoverable loss of sight.
No more than $300,000 will be paid under this paragraph to any one employee
or his personal representative as a result of any one accident."
Section 2
Paragraph (b)(3) - Time Loss of the above-referenced Agreement provisions
is amended to read as follows:
"(3) Time Loss
The carrier will provide an employee who is injured as a result of an
accident covered under paragraph (a) commencing within 30 days after such
accident 80% of the employee's basic full-time weekly compensation from the
carrier for time actually lost, subject to a maximum payment of $1,000.00 per
week for time lost during a period of 156 continuous weeks following such
accident provided, however, that such weekly payment shall be reduced by such
amounts as the employee is entitled to receive as sickness benefits under
provisions of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act."
Section 3
Paragraph(b)(4) - Aggregate Limit of the above-referenced Agreement
provisions is amended by raising such limit to $10,000,000.
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