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Alstom Signaling Inc.

Products: n/a. Risk band: Low   RobotRisk index 3.3/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 92th percentile of 128 rail supplier companies.

Analyst brief

Alstom Signaling's record contains one entry: the June 2009 Fort Totten crash, a fatality event rated severity 5, traced in the record to a failed GRS/Alstom Signaling track circuit module. This is a single catastrophic event with no separate regulatory citation entry in the data. The index of 3.3 and percentile of 92.1 place Alstom in the low band among rail-supplier entries, indicating a lighter overall record than most category peers despite the maximum severity of its one entry. No pattern or trajectory is established beyond this single dated event.

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Incident log (1 unique incidents)

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S506/22
2009 · 16:58
fatality Washington, DC, USAFort Totten crash traced to failed GRS/Alstom Signaling track circuit module · 1 failed track circuit module / system… NTSB

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