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They Failed to Act
The nation's largest commuter railroad system failed to address a major public safety hazard that it had known about for years. Through tenacious shoe-leather reporting, the staff of Newsday documented a danger long ignored by the Long Island Railroad and by state and federal regulators. Armed with Stanley tape measures, they found dangerous gaps between the platform and trains at the railroad's busiest stations, holes large enough for passengers to fall through.
Tags: railroad system; public safety; injuries; gap injuries; repairs; Federal Railroad Administration; Public Service Pulitzer finalist
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Cost Cutting Costs Airlines Safety
The report investigated shoddy maintenance on a major U.S. air carrier as a result of cost cutting. CBS News was able to find internal documents and talk to whistle blower mechanics proving that United Airlines failed to do the required maintenance of its fleet and failed to use licensed mechanics as required by the FAA. Examples in this report include: secretaries signing work papers that needed certified mechanic's signatures; failed equipment shined up and reinstalled in planes without being repaired; and letters pressuring mechanics to ignore safety problems.
Tags: TAPE; cost cutting; airline; United Airlines; FAA; NTSB; mechanic; Transportation Department; whistle blower; airline safety; airplane; plane; airline maintenance; circuit breakers; secretary; safety problems; inspection; repair station; outsourcing
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Pain in the Ass
Patterson investigates a claim that the American Service Station, a chain of automobile repair shops, is ripping people off by lying about parts needed and overcharging them for service.
Tags: cars; business; auto repair shops
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More N. Va. cars fail inspection; rejection rates vary widely across state, within regions
According to computer records, vehicle owners in Northern Virginia are much more likely to flunk state safety inspections than are other car owners in other parts of the state. Inconsistencies between regions and between stations suggest some repair shops may be failing cars to charge for unnecessary repairs, while others are rolling cars out just to collect the $10 fee.
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WJW-TV (Cleveland) spot-checks automobile emissions testing by service stations by having them test a "healthy" car and a car sabotaged by a master mechanic; finds 75 percent of the stations flunked the healthy car or passed the unhealthy car and unnecessary repairs were often suggested for a flunked vehicle, May 9 - 11, 1988.
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San Diego Magazine article examines the adequacy of repairs to the shut-down San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station reactor and the role of mounting financial costs in the decision to restart the reactor, July 1984.
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