Tag: sleep apnea testing
Senators take NTSB to task
January 11, 2017HME News Staff
WASHINGTON - Five U.S. senators have asked the National Transportation Safety Board to conduct a review of the implementation of sleep apnea testing for engineers for all passenger railroads. In a letter to NTSB Chairman Christopher Hart, Democratic Sens. Bob Menendez and Cory Booker of New Jersey, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut note that operator fatigue and sleep apnea have been cited in recent train crashes, including a fatal crash in Hoboken,...
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Railroad crashes, sleep apnea testing
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