49 CFR § 214.313 - Responsibility of individual roadway workers.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t49/s214.313"
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title: "49 CFR § 214.313 - Responsibility of individual roadway workers."
title_number: 49
title_name: "Transportation"
section_number: "214.313"
section_name: "Responsibility of individual roadway workers."
chapter_name: "FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION"
part_number: "214"
part_name: "RAILROAD WORKPLACE SAFETY"
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currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
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authority: "49 U.S.C. 20102-20103, 20107, 21301-21302, 31304; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note; and 49 CFR 1.89."
regulatory_source: "57 FR 28127, June 24, 1992, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "214"
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# 214.313 Responsibility of individual roadway workers.

(a) Each roadway worker is responsible for following the on-track safety rules of the railroad upon which the roadway worker is located.

(b) A roadway worker shall not foul a track except when necessary for the performance of duty.

(c) Each roadway worker is responsible to ascertain that on-track safety is being provided before fouling a track.

(d) Each roadway worker may refuse any directive to violate an on-track safety rule, and shall inform the employer in accordance with § 214.311 whenever the roadway worker makes a good faith determination that on-track safety provisions to be applied at the job location do not comply with the rules of the operating railroad.