I just killed six people and all I got was a strongly worded letter and increased insurance premiums is not the worst day in engineers life.
That's why punishment is required - both as a deterrant, and to inpart (to the people who suffered) a sense of justice being done.
I don't think even so much as a reprimand was given to people who failed to the one thing they are supposed to do: Control the speed of the train.
Did anyone else having trouble scrolling through this in Acrobat Reader? PgDn and touchpad scroll both skip from page 2 to page 4 for me, then scrolling back up hits page 3 and skips to page 1. Scrolling down from page 3 took me as far as page 6.
> On June 14, 2019, the NTSB revoked OSHA party status because of a breach of party participation rules. On June 11, contrary to party agreement obligations, OSHA released a report to the public that contained large portions of nonpublic draft NTSB material and also failed to provide investigative photographs to the NTSB as required by its status as a party to the investigation
I actually guessed what this was going to be
Or not really
I was thinking, it won't be this but maybe it should be
So I was wrong
Then I thought, well it was a lot worse for the people who got killed and their surviving family members
Was anybody ever held accountable? I figured the powers that be would largely agree on a fall guy -- maybe some subcontractor
To keep the American dream alive that we can build garbage and not have it actually be garbage
