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Why is there government inspection of that privately produced product? this is a link-and-pin coupling system. this used to be the industry standard for how you linked railway cars together, and for whatever reason, this is what railroad companies liked. this is what they built for their cars. even though brakemen frequently got their fingers or hands ripped off, the companied liked it. this is what they used. this is what they had been using for decades. why change? it would be expensive to have to do it another way. until 1893 when the federal government banned those types of couplings and forced railroad companies to use something that wouldn t rip the hands off their employees. that was 1893, the safety appliance act. today president biden announced that the occupational safety and health association, ....
Sticking its nose in and telling you that s actually cow you re eating and not road kill. why is there government inspection of that privately produced product? this is a link and pin coupling system. this used to be the industry standard for how you linked railway cars together, and for whatever reason, this is what railroad companies liked. this is what they built for their cars. even though brakemen frequently got their finger os hands ripped off, the companies liked it. this is what they used. this is what they had been using for decades. why change? it would be expensive to have to do it another way. until 1893 when the federal government banned those types of couplings and forced railroad companies to use something that wouldn t rip the hands off their employees of that was 193. the safety appliance act. ....
An hour, but they weigh more than 50,000 pounds, and sudden braking can cause problems as happened in february when seven people were hurt because of an obstacle that fell on the track. the brakemen sometimes have to throw the emergency brake which is a metal wedge that, boom, slams into the track, stops the cable car instantaneously about one foot, throwing all the passengers. we see injuries from that all the time. reporter: city officials report 126 accidents over the last decade that have injured 152 them seriously, and at great cost to the city, more than $8 million to settle about four dozen legal claims. jenna? jenna: i m looking on the web site. these cable cars have been around since the late 1800s? they ve been around for a while, so what is the city saying about keeping them? reporter: well, yeah. you know, really all the city can do at this point is focussen to focus on operator training ....