[ April 24, 2024 ]
Maybe that’s why there were over a thousand train derailments in the past year. This looks less like incompetence and more like complicity. FIRE Buttigieg.
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Leaked audio reveals US rail workers were told to skip inspections as Ohio crash prompts scrutiny to industry
By: The Guardian March 5, 2023:
Story continues below advertisementExclusive: employee says manager told her to stop marking cars for repair, as Ohio derailment brings hard look at industry’s record of blocking safety rules
In leaked audio heard by the Guardian, a manager for one of the US’s largest rail companies can be heard explaining to a former carman that they should stop tagging railcars for broken bearings. The manager says doing so delays other cargo.
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Read moreThe disclosure comes as federal agencies investigate the derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. A wheel-bearing failure was cited as the cause of the crash in a preliminary report released by the National Transportation Safety Board.
In late 2016, Stephanie Griffin, a former Union Pacific carman, went to her manager with concerns that she was getting pushback for tagging – or reporting for repair – railcars. Her manager told her it was OK to skip inspections.
Griffin asked if the manager could put that in writing. “That’s weird,” said the manager. “We have 56 other people who are not bad-ordering stuff out there. You’re definitely not going to get in trouble for it.”
Griffin said: “He refused to bad-order [mark for repair] cars for bad wheel bearings. My boss took issue with it because it increased our dwell time. When that happened, corporate offices would start berating management to release the cars.”
Dwell time refers to the time a train spends at a scheduled stop without moving. “It’s very obvious that management is not concerned with public safety, and only concerned with making their numbers look good,” Griffin said.
Griffin also claimed she and other workers did not receive any formal training to inspect and repair railcars, and were left to learn from an older worker and figure the rest out from American Association of Railroads and Federal Railroad Administration handbooks. Griffin suggested all major railroad carriers operate similarly.
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11 Comments
1 year ago
The Left and Marxism and “obama” are all so evil and sick and insidious they claim to be the protectors of the people when all they do is confuse and confound everything to the point that nothing works and everyone suffers, except them, as they continue heaping on the gaslighting and projection.
When it comes to sowing chaos and wrecking havoc and spreading suffering, nobody punches above her weight like Susan Rice. Can the Bolsheviks of the West take a hint that the worthy people of the United States and the World don’t want diversity and inclusion forced on them?
And Russia doesn’t want Leftist-Crony “obama” sh*t hole juntas on its borders.
1 year ago
All the sabotage we’re suffering is the curse of “obama.”
We don’t need any East Africans to help us or lead us.
1 year ago
Reply to
Chris Wolf
https://theamericanreport.org/2015/08/19/clues-unlock-obama-id/
Proof Obama is not a natural born American
1 year ago
Where was OSHA? Do they not have a say in safety any anymore? OSHA does not have enough people to enforce any laws. They are just another Useless Alphabet organization. Inspections should take place each time before the train starts it’s trip, and whenever it stops.
1 year ago
Reply to
Snowedin
I thought conservatives didn’t like regualtions. Where was the outcry when Trump rolled back Obama era safety regs? I mean,sure, the regs he rolled back didn’t cause this, but can you honestly tell me that you would have applauded a Democrat tightenind safety regs> Because usually when they do that, it’s pointed out that the libs are killing companies with all their onerous regtulations. Sorry – you can’t have it both ways.
1 year ago
Reply to
spuds
Trump Administration Rolls Back Obama-Era Safety Rules For OIL TRAINS .
DID an Oil train derail in OHIO or was it carrying BRAIN DEAD LIBERALS who have TDS ?
1 year ago
Reply to
spuds
The reg. Was for auto breaking not bearing inspections. Auto breaking didnt accomplish ehat was needed. Useless reg.
Overheated bearing. Was found. Before accident ignored. By management.
Last edited 1 year ago by Mik
1 year ago
They sabotaged our economy, why wouldn’t they sabotage our rail transportation?
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1 year ago
“Maybe that’s why there were over a thousand train derailments in the past year. This looks less like incompetence and more like complicity. FIRE Buttigieg.”
IMPEACH THE ENTIRE ADMINISTRATION !!!!!
1 year ago
Butt Head probably thought this up while he was getting paid on maternity leave
1 year ago
All those Americans that a members of the Democrat Cult should skip begging God to help them. Judah ended up in Babylon for 70 years because it did not do what it knew it should do. As the USA moves to become the USSSA Americans will learn what the Russian people experienced thanks to the Communists. Americans have voted for years to make the USA the Union of Soviet Socialist States of America.
