Gov't Urges Reporting to Avoid Derailments
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The government told railroads on Tuesday they should require their crews to report and document changes to manual switches like the one suspected of causing the derailment of a train carrying chlorine gas.
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Ten months ago, government safety officials warned about the vulnerability of the nation's 60,000 pressurized rail tank cars.
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Members of the Sept. 11 commission urged Congress to impose strict deadlines on the Department of Homeland Security to close loopholes in the nation's transportation system.
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Government questions about ''basic data integrity&quot; derailed publication of a report raising safety concerns about arthritis drug Vioxx on the eve of a contentious congressional hearing, according to an e-mail exchange.
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&quot;It does not look good. I&#39;m not predicting a disaster or anything like that, but it would be really miraculous if we didn&#39;t have some impacts,&quot; Department of Natural Resources
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China's senior safety inspector urged the public and the media Tuesday to expose workplace accidents in a bid to end corruption and official misdeeds aggravating the country's high rate of work deaths.
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Around sixty commuters had to be led along tracks to safety after a "significant attempt" to derail a train.
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Network Rail will undergo an urgent overhaul of its track inspection regime after admitting that the catalogue of errors that caused the fatal west coast train crash could be repeated.
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Tube maintenance firm Metronet orders safety checks across the network following a rush hour train derailment.
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Health and safety officials are urged to act after a report finds one in three industry deaths occur on building sites.
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Site will alert users to roadwork and accidents in their local area.
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Top federal safety officials urged the Labor Department in 2006 to adopt critical regulations to prevent deadly dust explosions Â like the one suspected in the deadly blast in a Georgia sugar plant Thursday Â but the government has failed to do so.
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Around sixty commuters had to be ed along tracks to safety after a "significant attempt" to derail a train.
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A new report from the state comptroller urges the M.T.A. to hold off on raising tolls and fares until the fate of Mayor Bloomberg's congestion pricing proposal is clearer.
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. BRISBANE, Australia -- The Australian train involved in a derailment and crash that injured most of its 163
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The network operates nearly 14,000 trains a day, carrying more than 13 million passengers, but has about 300 accidents a year. Railway Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav told parliament he would visit the site to determine the cause of the accident.
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The government is to announce measures aimed at improving safety on school buses in Northern Ireland.