Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is calling on the U.S. rail industry to take immediate steps to improve safety following the train derailment in Ohio.
is calling on the U.S. rail industry to take immediate action to improve safety following the train derailment in Ohio earlier this month.
Following a letter to rail operator Norfolk Southern in the wake of the disaster, the department is calling for paid sick leave for workers, advance notification to state emergency response teams when transporting hazardous gas tank cars, a requirement for owners of tank cars they operate to expedite the phase-in of safer tank cars ahead of a 2029 deadline, the deployment of new inspection technologies without seeking permission to abandon human inspections and the protection of workers who...
The reforms also call on railroads to increase maximum fines that the department can issue over violating safety regulations up from the current maximum fine of $225,455 and state that it will advance the train crew size rule and initiate a focused safety inspection program on routes over which trains with large volumes of hazardous material travel.
Two Ohio EPA Emergency Response workers access the creek near an explosion at the I. Schumann & Co. metals plant, sending 14 people to the hospital on Feb. 20, 2023 in Bedford, Ohio.noted that investigators from the Federal Railroad Administration and the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration were on the ground within hours of the train derailment and that the agencies are supporting the investigation being led by the National Transportation Safety Board.
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