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Items Tagged with 'train derailment'

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A Confined Space blog post

“Perfect storm” of sub-standard company practices led to disaster: Lac Mégantic trial goes to jury

January 12, 2018
Posted with permission from Confined Space, a newsletter of workplace safety and labor issues. After a 3 month-long trial, jurors are finally deliberating on the fate of three rail workers accused of criminal neglegence when a “bomb train” carrying 73 cars of highly combustible crude oil derailed in the small Quebec town of Lac-Mégantic in 2013, killing 47 people.
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A Confined Space blog post

Lac Mégantic: Blame the worker on steroids

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Jordan Barab
October 4, 2017
An unmanned, half-mile long train “bomb train” carrying tank-cars full of highly explosive crude oil barrels toward a city where it is doomed to derail on a curve, killing everyone in its wake. Luckily, Denzel Washington and Chris Pine show up to save the city at the last second. Everyone lives happily every after.
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Communities to get training money for transportation hazmat incidents

June 17, 2016
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) is making $1 million in grant funding available for training and outreach programs to help local communities prepare for transportation incidents involving hazardous materials, including crude oil and ethanol.
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CDC offers emergency response training to EHS professionals

April 7, 2016
Environmental health practitioners may perform critical functions during emergency response and recovery, such as conducting shelter assessments, testing drinking water supplies, performing food safety inspections, and controlling disease-causing vectors.
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NTSB wants Amtrak to videotape its crew members

July 9, 2015

In a letter to Amtrak yesterday, the National Transportation Safety Board said that it should install crash- and fire-protected inward- and outward-facing audio and image recorders in the operating cabs of all of its trains, and review the recordings to ensure that crew actions are in accordance with procedures.


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May 9, 2015

Transgender worker safety and health, making underwater work safer for divers and new rail safety rules were among the top occupational safety and health, public health and public safety stories posted on ISHN.com this week.


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U.S. oil boom’s unintended consequences: More high-risk transport derailments

February 24, 2015

The U.S. Department of Transportation estimates trains carrying crude oil or ethanol will derail an average of ten times every year during the next two decades. Derailments are predicted to cause more than $4 billion in damage and possibly kill hundreds of people if an accident happens in a densely populated part of the U.S.


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NTSB says WV train derailment shows why the issue is on its “Most Wanted List”

February 18, 2015

Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) office of Railroad, Pipeline, and Hazardous Materials are in communication with the Federal Railroad Administration and CSX emergency response crews on Monday’s train derailment near Mt. Carbon, West Virginia.


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Flawed safety culture behind fatal Metro-North train accidents

November 21, 2014

Metro North Railroad comes in for some harsh criticism in a report issued this week by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) about five accidents involving the company’s trains that occurred within less than a year.


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Hazmat train derailment in Canada forces evacuation

October 8, 2014

Dozens of residents in Saskatchewan, Canada were evacuated yesterday after a train carrying hazardous materials derailed, spilling petroleum distillate and bursting into flames. Petroleum distillates are used in diesel, kerosene, heating oil and jet fuel.


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