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“Do your job.” How the US railroad industry intimidates employees into putting speed before safety.

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Tags: railways, railroad industry, work, employees, safety.rail, repairs, culture.company, regulation, usa, author.topher sanders, author.jessica lussenhop, author.dan schwartz, author.danelle morton, author.gabriel sandoval, source.propublica, long read
https://www.propublica.org/article/railroad-safety-union-pacific-csx-bnsf-trains-freight

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Topher Sanders, Jessica Lussenhop, Dan Schwartz, Danelle Morton, Gabriel Sandoval
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    I work in the rail industry in Canada. It's not as bad as in the USA but its crazy. One incident I remember was a carman catching a piece of missing flange on a wheel and stopping the train as it...

    I work in the rail industry in Canada. It's not as bad as in the USA but its crazy. One incident I remember was a carman catching a piece of missing flange on a wheel and stopping the train as it was leaving town. He wasn't disciplined but his boss basically told him off for causing delays. A missing bit of flange like that inevitably leads to a derailment... that guy saved the company millions of dollars.

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