[net-gold] DISASTERS: EXPLOSIONS : TRANSPORTATION: RAILROAD: FREIGHT : PETROLEUM : ENVIRONMENT: OIL SPILLS: COUNTRIES: CANADA : LAW: CASES: MM&A Railway had Repeated Brake Violations on the Books
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- Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 12:52:08 -0500 (EST)
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MM&A Railway had Repeated Brake Violations on the Books
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MM&A Railway had Repeated Brake Violations on the Books
A decade before the Lac-Mantic tragedy, Transport Canada was aware of
company's non-compliance
CBC News
Posted: Feb 12, 2014 3:14 PM ET Last
Updated: Feb 12, 2014 4:41 PM ET
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/
mm-a-railway-had-repeated-brake-violations-on-the-books-1.2534131
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/okdstj7
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Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway Ltd. (MM&A) had been the subject of
repeated infraction notices for violations of the rules surrounding the
securing of trains for years before the tragedy in Lac-Mantic, but
Transport Canada never imposed any sanctions on the company.
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Those violations, documented in Transport Canada files obtained by
Radio-Canada's investigative program, Enque, were noted several times in
2004 and 2009, and again in 2011 and 2012.
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Just what happened the night in early July when an MM&A train rolled down
an incline, derailed and exploded in the core of Lac-Mantic, killing 47
people, is still under investigation.
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But the use of the handbrakes and how the train was secured are at the
heart of the inquiry, and have been since early days.
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In the weeks following the disaster, the Transportation Safety Board said
its investigation found the braking force applied wasnt enough to hold the
train on the 1.2 per cent descending slope where it had been parked for
the night.
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In the days following the tragedy, Edward Burkhardt, chairman of MM&A,
suspended the locomotive engineer and alleged the driver failed to apply
enough handbrakes when he left his train unattended on the main track and
headed into Lac-Mantic to sleep.
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Vandersleyen said the repeated violations on the books for MM&A show a
systemic safety problem within in the company.
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He also said Transport Canada failed in its duty by not imposing punitive
measures against MM&A.
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There are warnings, reviews, staff retraining . . . but there are no
explicit sanctions, Vandersleyen said.
Several days after the tragedy, MM&A was the subject of another Transport
Canada Notice and Order for a new violation of Section 112, only five
kilometres from Lac-Mantic, the documents reveal.
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A train of five locomotives and 98 cars was left unattended and without a
sufficient number of handbrakes to ensure it would remain immobile.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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