Let me don my nightmare goggles for a moment and ask: What are the odds that this was a domestic terrorist attack caused by a group of maligned workers who were angry about the rail strike bill?
Unlikely. Trains derail all the time. Poor maintenance, old tracks, mistakes by operators, random breakage. Just unlucky that this one had a lot of toxic cargo.
I thought that too but it turns out the axles were glowing hot and the signals from detectors built to prevent this thing were either malfunctioning or ignored. Keywords: ohio derailment hot box detector
Hey Bill, looks like these detectors are reporting an issue. If I wasn't so overworked and underpaid, I might notice it.
Yeah John, I don't notice anything either, on account of me being forced to work and having no autonomy in this industry. Would be a shame if something bad happened as a result.
These kind of safety whistleblowers (literally) are totally unprotected.
If Bill were to have put the train into emergency, checked everything, let it cool off, and then resumed travel, there would have been no disaster but Bill would likely have been yelled at at best or written up at worst for delaying a train, causing disruption throughout the system.
From 1990, the first year the BTS began tracking derailments and injuries on a yearly basis, to 2021, there have been 54,539 accidents in which a train derailed. That’s an average of 1,704 derailments per year.
I agree, so much hate for innocent mega-corps in these threads. It has to be the evil workers at fault. If you think using objectivism, it makes perfect sense.
Suspicious? If it makes you suspect anything, it should be the suspicion that the rail workers were right about it being dangerous to overwork rail workers.
Imagine a truck driver complains about being worked too hard, then a week later he falls asleep at the wheel and crashes his truck. Is there a connection??? Gee, I wonder.
I've hit this in software. Someone - not me - gives an estimate, a deadline is created, then... when I say the deadline can't be met... I'm 'negative' or 'confrontational' or 'not a team player'. When the deadline isn't met, I've been singled out as the 'cause' because I was trying to 'prove a point' or related language. Doesn't happen every day, but has happened more than a few times, and has happened to colleagues I've heard recount similar stories.
But yeah, in that example - totally the driver's fault. He's willing to break company property just to try to get himself some more sleep every week, without even considering the shareholders who've already taken out margin loans against their stock. Can you imagine how crappy it will be for them if next quarter comes in below analyst estimates?