Re: Drinking on the Job?
Author: Dr Zarkoff
Date: 10-25-2017 - 18:38
> Alcohol and later drugs has been a serious problem in the railroad business up until the 1987 AMTRAK Crash, Chase, MD. Afterward the Engineer Ricky Gates went before Congress and testified how prevalent an issue this was. Soon afterward Congress mandated Drug & Alcohol testing for a railroad employees in safety sensitive positions.
Gupow triggered post-incident testing, however that it caused the periodic, safety-sensitive mandated testing is urban legend. The periodic (and random) safety-sensitive testing came to pass as a result of an accident almost a year to the day later when a stoned tower operator on the NEC lined a clocker onto a section of main track which was out of service and occupied by a M/W gang. The train ran over a ballast regulator, derailed, and went down the bank at some 90 MPH (the engineer survived).