{"id":8810,"date":"2011-03-02T20:45:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T20:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utu.org\/?p=8810"},"modified":"2011-03-02T20:45:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T20:45:18","slug":"fra-20-employee-fatalities-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/fra-20-employee-fatalities-in-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"FRA: 20 employee fatalities in 2010","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
WASHINGTON — Figures released by the Federal Railroad Administration for 2010 show that 20 rail employees — eight of them UTU members — died in on-duty accidents in 2010. There were 16 on-duty employee deaths in 2009 — eight being UTU members.<\/p>\n
Highway-rail grade-crossing and trespassing accidents killed 712 in 2010, the FRA said — 451 of them trespassers on rail property.<\/p>\n
In 2010, there were 130 train collisions, down 3.2 percent from 2009, and 1,297 derailments, down 4.4 percent from 2009. Yard accidents totaled 981, down 1.8 percent from 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WASHINGTON — Figures released by the Federal Railroad Administration for 2010 show that 20 rail employees — eight of them UTU members — died in on-duty accidents in 2010. There were 16 on-duty employee deaths in 2009 — eight being UTU members. Highway-rail grade-crossing and trespassing accidents killed 712 in 2010, the FRA said — […]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,45,9,18,25],"tags":[],"member_types":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n