Most of the reaction to the death of a rail worker who mistakenly stepped in front of two CSX locomotives last month has focused on whether the 19-year veteran should have seen the train coming
FILE - The CSX logo is affixed on a surface, July 15, 2013, Nashville, Tenn. Much of the reaction to the death of a rail worker who mistakenly stepped in front of two CSX locomotives on Sept. 17, 2023, in Ohio has focused on whether that 19-year veteran should have seen the train coming and not on the actions of the worker who could hardly see the front of the locomotives he or she was operating using a remote control.
“They can put a back-up sensor on a car. Why can’t they put something on a locomotive when you get, you know, get so close to them, they automatically ring the horn or something?” Grissom said. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the death of Fred Anderson, so it won't be clear for some time exactly what happened. CSX won't discuss the incident because the investigation is ongoing. But the agency said when it issued athis week that after viewing surveillance video and talking to witnesses, its investigation"will focus on CSX's carmen safety procedure training and awareness.
The locomotives were moving at 10 mph when they struck Anderson, so the remote control operator may not have been able to stop them in time even if Anderson had been seen. He or she wasn't stationed at the front of the locomotives and also was working alone — as opposed to working in tandem with another person, something that was routine when remote control operations began nearly 20 years ago.
Remote control train operators might have only a month or two of training before taking the controls, although the length of training varies by railroad. By comparison, an engineer usually has several years of experience with a railroad before undergoing months of training to learn how to operate a train.Hall and other BLET officials believe the railroads are “gambling with safety” with the way they use remote control trains both inside and outside of railyards.
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Railroad unions want scrutiny of remote control trains after death of worker in Ohio railyardMost of the reaction to the death of a rail worker who mistakenly stepped in front of two CSX locomotives last month has focused on whether the 19-year veteran should have seen the train coming. Rail unions say more attention should be put on the actions of a worker who was using a remote control to operate those locomotives but who could hardly see the front of them. The head of the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen union questions why locomotives don't have the some kind of automated warning system similar to the kind of backup warnings nearly every new car has. CSX doesn't plan to change its remote control operations because the railroad says the operator involved in this incident was following all the rules.
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