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#31 CNJRoss

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Posted 30 June 2019 - 10:03 PM

NTSB News Release

Fatal Train Collision in South Carolina Subject of NTSB Board Meeting

 
6/27/2019

 

​WASHINGTON (June 27, 2019) – The National Transportation Safety Board announced Thursday its intention to hold a board meeting July 23, 2019, 9:30 a.m. (EDT), to determine the probable cause of the  Feb. 4, 2018, collision of an Amtrak and a CSX train near Cayce, South Carolina.

 

The collision occurred when a southbound Amtrak train was diverted from the main track through a hand-thrown switch into a siding and collided head-on with stationary CSX train. The engineer and conductor of the Amtrak train died as a result of the collision. At least 92 passengers and crew members on the Amtrak train were transported to medical facilities.

 

The urgent safety recommendation issued as a result of this ongoing investigation is available at https://goo.gl/z87Dpz

 

WHO:  NTSB investigative staff and board members.

WHAT:  A board meeting open to the public.

WHERE:  NTSB Boardroom and Conference Center, 420 10th St., SW, Washington, DC.

WHEN:  Tuesday, July 23, 2019, 9:30 a.m. (EDT). 

HOW: Media covering the meeting in person are asked to be in place no later than 9:15 a.m. on the day of the event.  The public meeting will also be webcast.  A link to the webcast will be available shortly before the start of the meeting at http://ntsb.windrosemedia.com/.

 

 



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Posted 23 July 2019 - 09:39 PM

Bloomberg 7/23/19

CSX Safety Lapses Blamed for 2018 Fatal Amtrak Collision in S.C.

  • NTSB issues findings on February 2018 South Carolina accident
  • Safety board cites CSX, federal regulators in final report
 

CSX Corp.’s lax approach to safety caused a fatal collision between a passenger train and one of the company’s parked freight trains last year, U.S. accident investigators concluded Tuesday.

 

The National Transportation Safety Board cited what it called multiple layers of failure at CSX that led a conductor to leave a switch in the wrong position, sending an Amtrak train onto a side track. The NTSB also cited U.S. railroad regulators for repeated failures to adopt safety requirements.

 

“Invariably humans will commit errors,” NTSB Chairman Robert Sumwalt said at the hearing. “We have to have enough redundancy in the system so that when that error is committed that error will be trapped before bad things happen -- and CSX failed to do that.”

 

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Posted 23 July 2019 - 09:57 PM

WIS-TV Columbia, SC 7/23/19

NTSB hearing on fatal Cayce Train Crash determines plenty of blame to go around

 

 

 

CAYCE, S.C. (WIS) - Nearly a year and a half after a deadly train crash in Cayce killed 2 people and injured 90 others, transportation regulators sought to put a bottom line on what happened that day.

 

A National Transportation Safety Board hearing in Washington DC touched on a lot of topics Tuesday, from implementing seatbelts on trains to better-enforcing regulations already proposed by the NTSB.

 

The agency spent the day looking at Amtrak, CSX and the Federal Railroad Administration, probing areas of failure, and areas where each entity has improved since the crash in the early morning hours of February 4th, 2018.

 

The agency concluded there were failures from all parties involved,  .  .  .

 

 

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Posted 24 July 2019 - 10:24 AM

NTSB news release

 
Inadequate Risk Assessments Led to Fatal, South Carolina Train Collision
 
7/23/2019

 

 

WASHINGTON (July 23, 2019) — The National Transportation Safety Board determined Tuesday that Amtrak’s and CSX Transportation’s failure to properly assess and mitigate the risk of conducting switching operations during a signal suspension, coupled with a CSX conductor’s error, led to the collision of an Amtrak train with a CSX train near Cayce, South Carolina.

 

In a public meeting held Tuesday, the NTSB said the Feb. 4, 2018, accident occurred when a southbound Amtrak train diverted from the main track through a hand-thrown switch into a storage track and collided head-on with a stationary CSX train. The engineer and conductor of the Amtrak train died as a result of the collision. At least 92 passengers and crewmembers on the Amtrak train were transported to medical facilities.

 
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(Derailed and damaged equipment on the Silica Storage track near Cayce, South Carolina,
is shown as seen from the north in this photo taken Feb. 4, 2018. NTSB Photo by Dana Sanzo)

 

 

In the report discussed Tuesday, the NTSB found Amtrak’s failure to conduct a risk assessment prior to operating during a signal suspension was also causal to the accident. Although Amtrak meets and exceeds FRA’s safety standards to ensure safe operations of its own railroads, Amtrak trains relied only on the minimum federal safety standards when operating on host railroads.  Therefore, NTSB reiterates a recommendation stemming from the DuPont, Washington accident investigation and concludes that Amtrak needs to implement a safety management system on all operations whether operating on their own tracks or on a host railroad.  

 

In its probable cause, the NTSB stated that along with CSX Transportation’s failure to properly assess and mitigate risk, the failure of a CSX conductor to realign a switch during the signal suspension led to the collision. The NTSB also said a contributing factor in  the accident was the Federal Railroad Administration’s failure to implement effective regulation to mitigate the risk of misaligned switch accidents. The NTSB’s report notes that unless the FRA implements more robust safety interventions, misaligned switch accidents will continue to occur.

 

“The train crew omitted throwing the switch that one final time, which unfortunately happens far too often,” said NTSB Chairman Robert L. Sumwalt. “If the same error is repeated by many people, the problem is not the individuals’ performance of their duties, rather, the problem is the failure to mitigate the risk associated with the task they are performing,” said Sumwalt. “That’s why the NTSB included CSX Transportation’s failure in the probable cause.”

 

As a result of the investigation, the NTSB issued three new safety recommendations, two of which were issued to the CSX Transportation. These recommendations address safety issues including actions and responsibilities of the train crew in handling switches. One recommendation issued to all host railroads is to work in partnership with Amtrak to implement a Safety Management System to assess and mitigate risks for operation on host railroads.

 

In addition, the NTSB reiterated four recommendations to the FRA, and one issued to Amtrak. Two recommendations to the FRA have been reclassified including one urgent safety recommendation calling on the FRA to provide instructions for railroads to follow when signal suspensions are in effect, and a switch has been reported relined for a main track.

 

An abstract of the final report, which includes the findings, probable cause, and all safety recommendations, is available at https://go.usa.gov/xyfSP.

 

Links to the accident docket and other publicly released information about this investigation are available at https://go.usa.gov/xyNQj.

 



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Posted 30 September 2019 - 05:46 PM

NTSB Update 9/30/19

 

Railroad Accident Report: Amtrak Passenger Train Head-on Collision with Stationary CSX Freight Train

 

 

The National Transportation Safety Board released a Railroad Accident Report ​on the February 4, 2018, head-on collision between an Amtrak (National Railroad Passenger Corporation) train and a stationary CSX Transportation Corporation local freight train in Cayce, South Carolina.

 

 

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Posted 24 February 2023 - 11:56 PM

Post & Courier, Charleston, SC, 2/24/23:

 


 

   5 years after deadly Amtrak crash in Cayce, what’s changed?    

 

 

The Amtrak 91 Silver Star train from New York with nearly 150 passengers barreled through South Carolina during the cold and early hours of Feb. 4, 2018.

 

 

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