If you think about the FELA much like a car accident case, jurors and courts have to decide on 100 percent basis who has how much fault in causing the incident or the injury. If the railroad’s 100 percent at fault you collect 100 percent of your damages. If you are 50 percent at fault, you only collect 50 percent of your damages. If you’re 90 percent at fault, you collect 10 percent of your damages. So that’s why gathering the evidence to prove what the railroad did wrong before the evidence gets removed or changed is so important immediately after an accident because if you can’t prove who’s at fault you can’t collect.