An unknown author once wrote, “Breath is spirit. The act of breathing is living.” This is undoubtedly true for four flight attendants who are suing Boeing, claiming that toxic air from an engine leaked into their plane and made them seriously ill on a 2013 flight. In April, a British coroner reported that samples from a…
When a passenger boards a Metro-North train or any other passenger railroad, there is every expectation to arrive at the destination safely. Yet Congress is considering easing a year-end deadline for railroads to install a technology, called Positive Train Control, that will prevent accidents like those due to speed on curves. Some of the nation’s railroads, including Metro-North,…
A CSX train conductor and a tractor-trailer driver suffered second- and third-degree burns when their vehicles collided in an industrial rail yard in Buffalo, New York (NY). The crash, outside a General Mills plant on Ganson Street along the river, occurred on the morning of June 23, 2015. The train was reportedly backing up along…
Many railroad companies have proposed in recent months to eliminate conductors from trains, which would leave just a single engineer aboard large freight trains. Most engineers do not want this, as they argue as this could lead to more train derailment disasters, such as the one that happened in Quebec in 2013, killing 47. In…
A contract worker doing maintenance for Canadian Pacific on railroad track north of Forreston, Illinois (IL), lost his life after a crane went out of control. The fatal workplace accident occurred on April 30, 2015. According to news reports, the deceased contractor died after suffering head and brain injuries in an ATV rollover….