RAILROAD ACCIDENT BRIEF: METROPOLITAN ATLANTA RAPID TRANSIT AUTHORITY (MARTA) UNSCHEDULED TRAIN 166 STRIKING BUCKET OF SELF-PROPELLED LIFT CONTAINING TWO CONTRACT WORKERS AT MARTA LENOX RAIL TRANSIT STATION IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA, APRIL 10, 2000

About 2:30 a.m. on April 10, 2000, an unscheduled Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) train struck the bucket of a self-propelled lift that was fouling the southbound main track at MARTA's Lenox Station in Atlanta, Georgia. Two MARTA contract workers who were repairing the station ceiling occupied the bucket. Both workers received fatal injuries when they were ejected onto the station platform. Clearance procedures, single-tracking, personnel training and experience, MARTA rules compliance program, and state oversight are discussed. As a result of the accident, the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) audited MARTA's operations. GDOT suggested that MARTA improve its rules testing and audit the performance and rules compliance of its employees. GDOT has accompanied MARTA managers who are doing the daily audits of employees that MARTA now requires and has determined that the audits are effective.

• Record URL:
  https://www.ntsb.gov/doclib/reports/2003/RAB0302.pdf
• 
• Corporate Authors:

  National Transportation Safety Board

  490 L'Enfant Plaza, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20594
• Publication Date: 2003-8-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos;
• Pagination: 11 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Auditing; Compliance; Crash analysis; Crash causes; Crash investigation; Crash reports; Fatalities; Occupational safety; Oversight; Passenger trains; Railroad crashes; Single track; Training; Work zone safety
• Identifier Terms: Georgia Department of Transportation; Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority
• Geographic Terms: Georgia
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Education and Training; Public Transportation; Railroads; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00979280
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: NTSB/RAB-03/02
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 27 2004 12:00AM