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    The Safety Appliance Act is a United States federal law that made air brakes and automatic couplers mandatory on all trains in the United States. It was...
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    agency for railroad accidents. Congress expanded the commission's powers through subsequent legislation. The 1893 Railroad Safety Appliance Act gave the...
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    In the U.S., an 1893 federal law, the Railroad Safety Appliance Act, required automatic brakes on all railroads, effective in 1900. Handbrake turn Johnson...
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    chronometers. 1893: Railroad Safety Appliance Act requires air brakes and automatic couplers on all trains, which greatly reduces railroad worker injuries and...
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    Benjamin Harrison signed the Railroad Safety Appliance Act, requiring mandatory air brakes and automatic couplers on all US railroad cars. Harrison gave the...
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  • demands of commercial railroad operations and, at the same time, be manipulated safely, the US Congress passed the Safety Appliance Act. Its success in promoting...
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  • of 1903, the Hepburn Act of 1906, the Mann–Elkins Act of 1910, and the Valuation Act of 1913. The Railroad Safety Appliance Act of 1893 was passed as...
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  • Johnson v. Southern Pacific Co. (category Southern Pacific Railroad)
    States Supreme Court. It interpreted the words "any car" in the Railroad Safety Appliance Act, prohibiting common carriers moving interstate commerce from...
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  • brakemen of its day, it was outlawed in the United States by the Railroad Safety Appliance Act of 1893. Local train A train that stops at most, if not all...
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  • railway brakes include: Dark territory Positive train control Railroad Safety Appliance Act Category:Runaway train disasters "Runaway Indian train travels...
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    minimal. The first federal safety legislation was enacted in the Progressive period. In 1893, Congress passed the Safety Appliance Act, the first federal statute...
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  • Haven and Hartford Railroad (the New Haven Railroad) leases the Old Colony Railroad. March 2 – The US Railroad Safety Appliance Act is enacted, mandating...
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    Grab bar (redirect from Safety bar)
    choice. Grab bars were required on U.S. railroad cars by the Railroad Safety Appliance Act of 1893. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) guidelines...
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    line". Rail Engineer. Retrieved 11 August 2024. Such as the Railroad Safety Appliance Act of 1893. ""Kaoham Shuttle" page, Seton Lake Indian Band website...
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  • Railways. June 6 – The US Railroad Safety Appliance Act of 1893 is further extended to mandate that no less than 85% of all railroad cars in an operating train...
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    carriers, and Congress passed the Safety Appliance Act in 1893 to provide a uniform standard.: 6–7  The law required railroads to install air brakes and automatic...
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  • third rail. The provisions of the Railroad Safety Appliance Act, enacted in 1893, are extended to include all railroad cars whether or not the cars themselves...
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    human safety in the workplace began in 1802 with the Health and Morals of Apprentices Act. In 1893 in the United States, Railroad Safety Appliance Act was...
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    other railroads, weighed 10 to 15 tons each and had mechanical brakes, limiting their use to the H&W, as the federal Railroad Safety Appliance Act, which...
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    In 1980, Conrail became profitable after the Staggers Act largely deregulated the U.S. railroad industry. When the U.S. government offered up Conrail...
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  • patented, the US Congress passed the Federal Safety Appliance Act, which made it illegal to operate any railroad car without automatic couplers. Little is...
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    Flare (category Maritime safety)
    on 9 October 2022. International Life-Saving Appliance (LSA) Code. International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea [SOLAS] of 1 November 1974. Austlii...
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    Rail speed limits in the United States (category United States railroad regulation)
    limits in the United States are regulated by the Federal Railroad Administration. Railroads also implement their own limits and enforce speed limits....
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  • right secured under the Federal Constitution. The provisions of the Safety Appliance Act of March 2, 1893, amended April 1, 1896, declared it to be unlawful...
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    Ellwood Safety Appliance Company. Retrieved 2016-12-24. Levesque, Adam (December 15, 2016). "Steel Toe Footwear - Are They Really Safer?". MEMIC Safety Blog...
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    rebate programs for whole-home upgrades and $4.28 billion to states for appliance replacement rebates, with the suggestion that half the money go to households...
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    switches, signals and other appliances was introduced to improve safety. This prevents a signalman from operating appliances in an unsafe sequence using...
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    Electrician (section Safety)
    installation, safety switches, smoke alarm installation, inspection and certification and testing and tagging of electrical appliances. To provide data...
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    basic regulated safety requirements. Due to the wave of mergers that have occurred since the 1960s it is not uncommon to see a single railroad operating many...
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  • the Safety Appliance Act (Act). Plaintiff filed an action against defendant railroad company for the wrongful death of her intestate under the Safety Appliance...
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