S.C. Code Regs. 103-13. Accidents

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South Carolina Code of Regulations › Chapter 103 PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION › S.C. Code Regs. 103-13

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Every railroad corporation shall cause immediate notice of any accident which may occur on its road, attended with injury to any person, to be given to the Public Service Commission, by telegraph, telephone or such other means as may be the quickest under the circumstances, at the same time that notice is given the officials of the road on which the accident occurred, and shall furnish immediate transportation for the Commissioners over its line to the place of accident free of expense to the Commissioners, and if the Commissioners use another railroad to reach the place of accident, the corporation on whose line the accident occurs shall pay the expense of transportation thereon, and shall also give notice in like manner of any accident falling within any description of accidents of which said Commissioners may by general regulation require notice to be given.

Also, every railroad corporation upon whose line any accident may occur, attended with injury to any person or persons, is, in all such cases, required to immediately notify the most accessible physician or physicians, by quickest possible means, of place of accident and require the giving of such medical or surgical attention as the case or cases may require.

Pursuant to Sections 58-17-3440 and 58-17-3450, S.C. Code 1976.

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