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Freight train involved in fatal derailment started on its own: TSB
February 6, 2019 Lauren Krugel - THE CANADIAN PRESSCALGARY – A Canadian Pacific freight train parked on a frigid night in the Rocky Mountains began to move on its own before a derailment that killed three workers and sent 99 grain cars and two locomotives hurling off the…
Dozens of freight cars derail in fatal train accident
February 5, 2019 THE CANADIAN PRESSFIELD, B.C. – A Canadian Pacific freight train fell more than 60 metres from a bridge near the Alberta-British Columbia boundary in a derailment that killed three crew members, a union representative said Monday. The westbound freight jumped the tracks…
TSB attributes Calgary freight train derailment in part to “likely” fatigue of engineer who had been awake for 23 hours
June 5, 2017 by Canadian UnderwriterThere is an increased risk of tired railway engineers reporting for duty if a rail operator’s “fatigue management procedures do not provide opportunities for potentially fatigued employees to remove themselves from eligibility for duty without fear of discipline,” the Transportation…
Transport Canada urged to ‘identify appropriate mitigating strategies’ to reduce severity of derailments involving dangerous goods
February 17, 2017 by Canadian UnderwriterThe federal transport department should study the factors involved in severity of train derailments involving dangerous goods, Transportation Safety Board of Canada said Thursday. TSB – a separate organization from Transport Canada that investigates rail, aviation, marine and pipeline incidents…
Canadian railways need ‘physical fail-safe capabilities’ to reduce collision risk: TSB
January 26, 2017 by Canadian UnderwriterThe Transportation Safety Board of Canada reiterated Wednesday its recommendation for “additional physical defenses” on railways in case crews fail to obey signals. On Sept. 6, 2015, a Canadian Pacific freight train enroute from Revelstoke, B.C. to Saskatchewan hit a…
TSB continues call for Canada-wide standards for locomotive data recorders
January 13, 2017 by Canadian UnderwriterThe Transportation Safety Board of Canada is reiterating a call it made 14 years ago for the federal government to put standards in place for data recorders in train locomotives. TSB is a separate organization from Transport Canada that investigates…