The number of hours a crew can work on a train are limited by federal rules, and can contribute to blockages of railroad crossings. In some cases, this causes emergency responders to have to find detours, which could endanger people waiting for an ambulance. According to one public safety official in Indiana, delays at railroad…
Sleep apnea may have caused an engineer to fall asleep on a train that derailed in New York City in 2013, leading to four deaths. The train, bound for Manhattan, derailed at high speed around a curve on Dec. 1, 2013. At the time, the train was going at least 80 MPH, or 50 MPH…
Most railroad claims agents will tell an injured railroad worker that compensation is simply a percentage of the time or wages lost, but this is totally false.
A conductor crewing a Burlington Northern and Santa Fe train got killed when she became trapped between two moving rail cars in a Colorado Springs, CO, rail yard. The fatal on-the-job accident occurred on October 9, 2014, off a side track servicing a construction supply company. According to a report in the local…
North Dakota oil companies are not pleased that new state and federal rules could make them make their crude oil less explosive before it is loaded onto trains. They claim that the new rules will not improve safety. The AP has reported that North Dakota may implement new rules that are designed to cut down…