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Congress in October gave the nation’s railroads three more years, and possibly up to five, to install a mandated safety system that would automatically slow trains running at unsafe speeds, and which safety experts say could have prevented May’s fatal Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia.

Congress in October gave the nation’s railroads three more years, and possibly up to five, to install a mandated safety system that would automatically slow trains running at unsafe speeds, and which safety experts say could have prevented May’s fatal Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia.

The rally cry of being your sister’s and brother’s keeper is an old saw in the workplace safety world.

In Young Men and Fire, Norman Maclean searches for the cause of the Mann Gulch wildland fire of August 5, 1949, in which 13 firefighters died.

Rain came down in buckets one evening this summer, a torrential storm.

Rain came down in buckets one evening this summer, a torrential storm.

I doubt many of you saw the finish of NASCAR’s Coke Zero 400 race at Daytona International Speedway, which due to a three-and-one-half hour rain delay ended at 2:41 a.m. Monday morning, July 6th.