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NTSB chair: Freight trains should also have image recording devices

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The chair of the National Transportation Safety Board said a new federal rule requiring the...

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Presumed human remains included among debris found near wreckage of Titan submersible

Marine safety engineers with the US Coast Guard’s Marine Board of Investigation (MBI) recovered and transferred remaining Titan submersible debris and evidence from the North Atlantic Ocean seafloor earlier this month, the coast guard said in a press release on Tuesday, October 10. The salvage...

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NTSB probe of CSX carman death to focus on safety protocols, awareness

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The National Transportation Safety Board’s investigation of a September death at a CSX rail yard...

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Crash victims allege DOT violations related to underride guard report

WASHINGTON — Truck safety advocates want the Biden administration to investigate whether regulators violated ethics rules and federal law in conducting cost-benefit assessments of crash protection equipment for truck trailers.

In a letter sent Thursday to U.S. Department of Transportation Inspector General Eric Soskin requesting the investigation, the Truck Safety Coalition, along with a group of truck crash victim advocates and victim family members, alleged potential misconduct by DOT...

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NTSB probe of CSX fatality to focus on employee training, close clearances

The National Transportation Safety Board will be focusing its investigation of an Aug. 6 fatality at a CSX rail yard in Cumberland, Maryland, on the railroad’s employee training regime, as well as the industry’s procedures for identifying areas where the clearance between rail equipment might be limited.

In a NTSB report issued Tuesday, it confirmed initial reported details about the incident, including that the conductor trainee, identified by CSX as Travis Bradley, sustained injuries while...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ntsb-probe-of-csx-fatality-to-focus-on-employee-training-close-clearances

NTSB: Fatal Amtrak derailment shows need for more track inspections

“Poor track conditions” of a track owned by BNSF may have contributed to a fatal September 2021 accident involving an Amtrak train derailment in Joplin, Montana, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.

But NTSB’s investigation report also points to wider questions on how the freight rail industry should deploy technological tools such as autonomous track monitoring systems and what role visual inspections by a human inspector might play in inspections. The federal agency is...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ntsb-fatal-amtrak-derailment-shows-need-for-more-track-inspections

Excessive speed during harbour manoeuvres caused tug to collide with containership, NTSB report reveals

Excessive speed during an advanced harbour-assist manoeuvre led to a tug colliding with a container vessel in the Houston Ship Channel in Texas last year, the US National ..

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Failure of doubler-plated hull likely cause of sinking of fishing vessel off Massachusetts in 2022

The failure of the doubler-plated hull under the engine room likely caused the flooding and sinking of a fishing vessel near Gloucester, Massachusetts last year, the Nati ..

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2 firefighters killed in car carrier blaze at Port Newark

Two firefighters died while fighting a blaze aboard a Grimaldi roll-on/roll-off vessel berthed at Port Newark in New Jersey Wednesday night. 

Emergency personnel from the Port of New York and New Jersey as well as the New York and Newark fire departments and the U.S. Coast Guard responded to a blaze aboard the Grande Costa d’Avorio that reportedly broke out at about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday.

The Grimaldi Group, the Italian company that owns the vessel, said in a statement that the fire erupted on the...

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NTSB to Investigate Titan Implosion with Coast Guard

Titan submersible. OceanGate Image

The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the implosion that killed five people death aboard the Titan submersible as part of the Coast Guard’s Maritime Board of Investigation.

The U.S. Coast Guard, which served as the lead agency on the recovery efforts for Titan, opened a Maritime Board of Investigation June 25 to look into Titan’s last dive, which ended in the death of the five passengers aboard, including OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush.

As part...

https://news.usni.org/2023/06/30/ntsb-to-investigate-titan-implosion-with-coast-guard

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