Citing the significance of recent accidents, the NTSB announced it will conduct a special investigation of Norfolk Southern Railway's 'safety culture'
The NTSB said investigative teams have had to deploy to five significant accidents involving Norfolk Southern in just over one year. Three of the incidents were in Ohio in just over one month:, an employee for National Salvage and Service Corp. assigned to work with a Norfolk Southern team replacing track was killed when the operator of a spike machine reversed direction and struck the employee in Reed, Pennsylvania.
As part of the special investigation, the NTSB said it will also review the Oct. 28 Norfolk Southern derailment in Sandusky.The NTSB said it is concerned that several organizational factors may be involved in the accidents, including safety culture. In the Feb. 3 East Palestine incident, the NTSB said it appears a bearing in a rail car failed, causing a derailment that involved cars containing vinyl chloride, a flammable chemical used as a precursor to many plastic products. An evacuation order was issued for the area around the derailment site, and theEric Marotta can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @MarottaEric.
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