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WMSC adopts multiple safety investigation reports; staff details derailment, roadway-worker near-misses and a series of improper door operations
Summary
WMSC staff presented findings from a derailment on June 9 and multiple safety-event investigations (Whiskey0377–Whiskey0383) including an improper roadway-worker protection event, five improper door-operation events and one person-struck incident; commissioners voted unanimously to adopt the reports.
The Washington Metrorail Safety Commission reviewed a group of safety-investigation reports and voted unanimously to adopt them.
Mister Quigley, presenting the investigations, summarized a June 9 derailment at Mount Vernon Square in which a prime mover pushing a flat car entered a pocket track where a fixed derailer "remained in the derail position and caused the flat car to, derail," he said. The event damaged a flat car and track infrastructure; there were no reported injuries. The WMSC has opened a data-driven investigation into procedures for track access and derailer positioning.
Quigley also presented a roadway-worker protection investigation (Whiskey0377) concerning an entry on Aug. 25, 2024, when a roadway worker in charge (RIC) reported the wrong alphanumeric location to the rail…
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