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
Thankfully infrastructure collapse is very rare. So let’s not lose our perspective here.