S5 · 10/19
2013 ·
BART
| Company | BART |
| Category | other |
| Type | regulatory |
| Date | 10/19 2013 |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | no physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record) |
| Severity | S5 (fatality or catastrophic loss) |
| Scale | systemwide recommendation |
| Confidence | high |
| Verification | Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source |
| Source | CBS News San Francisco |
One month after the fatal automatic-mode train strike that killed two BART track workers, NTSB issued urgent safety recommendations to the Federal Transit Administration calling for redundant protection systems (e.g., positive train control or secondary warning devices) for workers on active track.