Download or read book Work Injuries in the Railroad Industry written by United States. Railroad Retirement Board and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Work Injuries in the Railroad Industry 1938 40 written by United States. Railroad Retirement Board and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book FRA Guide for Preparing Accidents incidents Reports written by United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Safety and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Economics of Railroad Safety written by Ian Savage and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American public has a fascination with railroad wrecks that goes back a long way. One hundred years ago, staged railroad accidents were popular events. At the Iowa State fair in 1896, 89,000 people paid $20 each, at current prices, to see two trains, throttles wide open, collide with each other. "Head-on Joe" Connolly made a business out of "cornfield meets" holding seventy-three events in thirty-six years. Picture books of train wrecks do good business presumably because a train wreck can guarantee a spectacular destruction of property without the messy loss of life associated with aircraft accidents. A "train wreck" has also entered the popular vocabulary in a most unusual way. When political manoeuvering leads to failure to pass the federal budget, and a shutdown is likely of government services, this is widely called a "train wreck. " In business and team sports, bumbling and lack of coordination leading to a spectacular and public failure to perform is also called "causing a train wreck. " A person or organization who is disorganized may be labelled a "train wreck. " It is therefore not surprising that the public perception of the safety of railroads centers on images of twisted metal and burning tank cars, and a general feeling that these events occur quite often. After a series of railroad accidents, such as occurred in the winter of 1996 or the summer of 1997, there are inevitable calls that government "should do something.
Download or read book Work Injuries in the Railroad Industry 1938 40 written by United States. Railroad Retirement Board and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reporting of Accidents Casualities in the Railroad Industry written by United States. Railroad Retirement Board. Division of Safety Studies and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Death Rode the Rails written by Mark Aldrich and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of the 19th and much of the 20th centuries, railroads dominated American transportation. They transformed life and captured the imagination. Yet by 1907 railroads had also become the largest cause of violent death in the country, that year claiming the lives of nearly twelve thousand passengers, workers, and others. In Death Rode the Rails Mark Aldrich explores the evolution of railroad safety in the United States by examining a variety of incidents: spectacular train wrecks, smaller accidents in shops and yards that devastated the lives of workers and their families, and the deaths of thousands of women and children killed while walking on or crossing the street-grade tracks. The evolution of railroad safety, Aldrich argues, involved the interplay of market forces, science and technology, and legal and public pressures. He considers the railroad as a system in its entirety: operational realities, technical constraints, economic history, internal politics, and labor management. Aldrich shows that economics initially encouraged American carriers to build and operate cheap and dangerous lines. Only over time did the trade-off between safety and output—shaped by labor markets and public policy—motivate carriers to develop technological improvements that enhanced both productivity and safety. A fascinating account of one of America's most important industries and its dangers, Death Rode the Rails will appeal to scholars of economics and the history of transportation, technology, labor, regulation, safety, and business, as well as to railroad enthusiasts.
Download or read book Fatal Workplace Injuries in a Collection of Data and Analysis written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Death Rode the Rails written by Mark Aldrich and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-04-10 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The evolution of railroad safety, Aldrich argues, involved the interplay of market forces, science and technology, and legal and public pressures. He considers the railroad as a system in its entirety: operational realities, technical constraints, economic history, internal politics, and labor management. Aldrich shows that economics initially encouraged American carriers to build and operate cheap and dangerous lines. Only over time did the trade-off between safety and output - shaped by labor markets and public policy - motivate carriers to develop technological improvements that enhanced both productivity and safety."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Impact of Railroad Injury Accident and Discipline Policies on the Safety of America s Railroads written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rail Safety Reauthorization written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railroad Safety written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Compensating Injured Railroad Workers Under the Federal Employers Liability Act written by National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 1994 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Railroad workers who are injured on the job seek compensation for their injuries under the provisions of the Federal Employers Liability Act of 1908 (FELA). This report assesses the injury compensation system that has evolved under Federal Employer's Liability Act (FELA) and compares it with the no-fault compensation systems that cover US workers.
Download or read book Transcript of Proceedings of the Emergency Board written by United States. Emergency Board and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 1348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fatal Workplace Injuries in written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rail Industry Staggers Act Oversight written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Regulatory Overreach in the Railroad Industry written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
