(Source: CTV News, June 16, 2021)
MONTREAL — In the last two-and-a-half years, since 2018, five conductors have died at CN-owned railyards in Canada. A sixth died a little earlier, in 2017. Some CN employees, past and present, point out that the company’s restructuring over the last few years did away with many familiar bulwarks meant to guard against errors, including dismantling a longstanding safety team, while also hiring a huge new cohort of young, inexperienced employees.
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