{"data":{"id":"us/49-cfr-214.313","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"49 CFR 214.313","heading":"Responsibility of individual roadway workers.","body":"(a) Each roadway worker is responsible for following the on-track safety rules of the railroad upon which the roadway worker is located.\n(b) A roadway worker shall not foul a track except when necessary for the performance of duty.\n(c) Each roadway worker is responsible to ascertain that on-track safety is being provided before fouling a track.\n(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.","path":["Title 49—Transportation","Subtitle B—Other Regulations Relating to Transportation","CHAPTER II—FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION","PART 214—RAILROAD WORKPLACE SAFETY","Subpart C—Roadway Worker Protection"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-49.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:26:34Z","sha256":"f5b9adac4ee008033a731801648906e01c47b1c14cf7118a9e6de709428f7bf5","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/49-cfr-214.311","next":"us/49-cfr-214.315"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}