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Bad Week For Pan Am Railways

By Charlie Goetsch on June 30, 2014
Posted in Federal Rail Safety Act

Twice in the same week, Pan Am Railways has been slammed with the statutory max in Federal Rail Safety Act punitive damages: once from a federal jury expressing its outrage at Pan Am’s profoundly unsafe culture and again from a Judge whose excoriating decision describes that culture in damning detail.

The federal jury verdict came…

OSHA HAMMERS METRO NORTH WITH $300,000 IN FRSA PUNITIVE DAMAGES!

By Charlie Goetsch on June 18, 2009
Posted in Federal Rail Safety Act

Talk about sending a message! OSHA has blown the whistle on Metro North Railroad’s culture of retaliation. Big time. No longer do railroad workers have to fear reporting an injury or a safety violation. The days when railroad managers could retaliate with impunity are officially over. Every railroad in the country is now on notice…

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