8.01-59 - Assumption of risk; violation of safety appliance acts. - Virginia Statutes

§ 8.01-59. Assumption of risk; violation of safety appliance acts.

In any action brought against any common carrier, under or by virtue of §8.01-57, to recover damages for injuries to, or death of, any of itsemployees, the knowledge of any employee injured or killed of the defectiveor unsafe character or condition of any machinery, ways, appliances, orstructures of such carrier shall not of itself be a bar to recovery for aninjury or death caused thereby, nor shall such employee be held to haveassumed the risk of his employment in any case in which the violation by suchcommon carrier of any statute enacted for the safety of employees contributedto the injury, or death of such employee.

(Code 1950, § 8-643; 1977, c. 617.)