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November 20, 2014

NTSB: sleep disorder screening inadequate

  • The safety board called on the Federal Railroad Administration to impose sleep-disorder screening on all railroads.

    • NEW YORK (AP) — Federal regulators who concluded that an engineer's sleep apnea caused a deadly train derailment in New York adopted several recommendations Wednesday for better screening of such disorders, including a call for improved physician training.

    The National Transportation Safety Board, meeting in Washington, approved all the conclusions and recommendations in a staff report that examined five Metro-North Railroad accidents in New York and Connecticut in 2013 and 2014.


     
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