A team of five people boarded Shell's Kulluk ship, grounded since Dec. 31 on the southeast coast of Sitkalidak Island, Alaska. They reported it is firmly aground and found no signs of environmental impact.
Laser scanning can accurately depict a scene in three dimensions, Joseph Kolly, director of the agency’s Office of Research and Engineering, reported Jan. 1 in a post on the NTSB blog.
AB Volvo, one of five partners involved in the China Sweden Research Centre for Traffic Safety, said pilot projects already are under way.
New Year's Day tops the list of most deadly day for alcohol-related fatalities.
The New Year's holiday brings a spike in DUI arrests and, in many states, in alcohol-related crashes.
Honeywell recently announced it has been awarded the $4.8 million contract to install the health and usage monitoring systems in all 42 of the U.S. Coast Guard's MH-60T helicopters.
The Xinhua news agency reported the Dec. 22 test along a 415-mile stretch of the line's northern section went smoothly. The public can begin using the 1,378-mile railway Dec. 26.
The task of uprighting and refloating the stranded cruise ship involves about 400 workers and a seven-days-a-week schedule, the salvors reported Dec. 23.
The auto manufacturer failed to notify NHTSA that a recall was necessary within five days of discovery.
The chairman of the Responsible Care board committee announced updated product and process safety codes will be issued.
Two will be held Jan. 8-9 at DOL’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., and the others will take place Feb. 5 at the University of Texas at Arlington. The agency seeks comments on how to prevent this all-too-common type of injury and fatalities.
The law directs the Federal Transit Administration to work with manufacturers and transit agencies to set a new pass/fail standard for bus testing, and this takes precedence over full-load testing change.
The levels for freight transportation usage in October were the lowest they had been in more than a year.
The 2010-2011 total of 374 occupational fatalities there is equal to 8 percent of the 4,690 fatalities recorded in the United States in 2010, according to BLS.
"While we need to avoid schedules that call for excessive hours, it's equally important to modify work patterns through a combination of education, training, and lifestyle choices to ensure employees can avoid fatigue," said Metro Board Safety Committee Chair Mort Downey.
The agency reiterates that cargo airlines are free to adopt the rule voluntarily and said its new Supplemental Regulatory Impact Analysis provides even more economic evidence for excluding cargo.
According to the special report issued Dec. 11 by the safety board, between 2004 and 2009 there were 1,566 wrong-way fatal crashes in the United States that killed 2,139 people.
Answering a petition from the Association of American Railroads, the DOT agency says it will make changes that reduce PTC costs for locomotives used in rail yards and will expand the de minimis exemption.
With the Apps for Vehicles Challenge, the public is encouraged to submit ideas for apps that would help drivers reach the next level of fuel efficiency.
Robert LiMandri on Dec. 3 started the Department of Buildings' ninth annual Elevator Escalator Safety Awareness Week by visiting a Brooklyn public school to teach children in first, second, and third grades how to safely ride elevators and escalators and what to do in an emergency.