Norfolk Southern policy lets officials order crews to ignore safety alerts/As Rail Executives Grow Richer, Train Derailments Have Become Commonplace

[basquebromance]

this shouldn't happen in America, Americans are the most generous hard working people in history. USA! USA!

Revealed: Norfolk Southern policy lets officials order crews to ignore safety alerts

Norfolk Southern allows a monitoring team to instruct crews to ignore alerts from train track sensors designed to flag potential mechanical problems.ProPublica learned of the policy after reviewing the rules of the company, which is engulfed in controversy after one of its trains derailed this...

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As Rail Executives Grow Richer, Train Derailments Have Become Commonplace

The East Palestine disaster is a horrifying, spectacular version of what has become the normal occurrence of train derailments in America. Joe Biden could use this as an opportunity to overhaul a crooked and dangerous industry. So far, he appears uninterested.

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[kyzr]

Safety shortcuts should NEVER be allowed. That's why insurers have skin in the game.
I wonder if N-S has an insurer, or if they are self-insured to circumvent enforcing regulations?

 

[pknopp]

The fact that Norfolk Southern’s accident rate was ticking up at the same time its profits were rising and its executives were assuring investors they’d keep costs down offers a clue.

"Shareholder value". That's the #1 problem in this country. It causes accidents like we have seen here. It causes jobs to go overseas. It causes economic crashes. It causes much needed regulations to not get enforced. It causes wars.