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The FRA does already levy fines for safety violations, though yeah they could be raised. Hot bearings / axles can happen even with proper car maintenance and t
by parasubvert 4y ago
The FRA does already levy fines for safety violations, though yeah they could be raised.
Hot bearings / axles can happen even with proper car maintenance and there are usually wayside sensors to detect such incidents before they cause a derailment. It will become clearer what went wrong on this patch of rail when the NTSB report comes out, though perhaps it's time the FRA mandated hotbox detectors at dense intervals closer to towns. A surveillance camera saw the hot axle fire 20 miles out of the derailment: https://www.wsj.com/articles/miles-before-ohio-derailment-train-axle-was-on-fire-video-shows-7e221f0e https://www.wsj.com/articles/miles-before-ohio-derailment-tr...
- Eisenstein 4y agoIf the consequences were them losing all profit for a year and/or the CEO going to jail, you better bet there won't be any derailments, no matter what excuses there are this time around.
- parasubvert 4y agoMore likely, they'd just stop carrying the dangerous goods in the first place as not being profitable.
- mrguyorama 4y agoA fine that doesn't go above and beyond the extraProfitFromBad / probabilityOfGettingFined by a large margin isn't a fine, it's a tax.