National Transportation Safety Board Safety Recommendation

摘要

On December 7, 2003, about 12:12 a.m., central standard time, a Union Pacific Railroad (UP) switching foreman was struck and killed by two locomotives at the UP's East Yard in San Antonio, Texas. The two locomotives were operated as a single unit under the foreman's control. He was operating the locomotives from the ground using a remote control transmitter. He usually had a helper. However, the night the accident occurred, the helper position was not filled because of a crew dispatch problem, so the foreman worked alone. He was moving the locomotives from track 32 to train yard track 3, where he was assigned to switch 44 railroad cars. When the accident occurred, the locomotives were traveling about 11 mph and were moving back over the track they had just traversed rather than over the route leading to the destination (train yard track 3).