Joe Chidgey
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Joe Chidgey
 




Joe Chidgey is native of San Antonio, Texas. Joe hired on with the Southern Pacific Railroad, after graduating from high school in 1972, as a trainman. Joe followed his father's footsteps and later entered engine service. He was promoted to the position of locomotive engineer in 1979. Joe worked as a locomotive engineer until he was injured in 2001. Joe's neck and back were injured due to years of exposure to locomotive vibration. His FELA case was the first to be successfully tried for locomotive vibration in the Southwest. Joe currently works as an investigator for Tavormina & Young. Joe is an excellent photographer and is great with computers. Joe is detail orientated and does a great job of sniffing out the facts of the injury.