Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
SECOND DIVISION
Award No. 12769
Docket No. 12599
94-2-92-2-151

The Second Division consisted of the regular members and in addition Referee John C. Fletcher when award was rendered.

(Brotherhood of Railway Carmen ( Division TCIU PARTIES TO DISPUTE: (Norfolk Southern Railway Company

STATEMENT OF CLAIM:



FINDINGS:

The Second Division of the Adjustment Board, upon the whole record and all the evidence, finds that:

The carrier or carriers and the employee or employees involved in this dispute are respectively carrier and employee within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act .as approved June 21, 1934.

This Division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein.

Parties to said dispute waived right of appearance at hear:_ng thereon.
Form 1 Award No. 12769
Page 2 Docket No. 12599


The organization claims that Carrier utilized a switch crew to couple air hoses and give an initial terminal air brake test on eleven cars being delivered to a connecting carrier, at Louisville, KY. The total length of the move from the location where the work was alleged to have been done to the location of the connecting carrier is less than 3000 feet. For the Organization to prevail it is necessary that it demonstrate that several elements are present, among them that Carman were employed and on duty in a departure yard at the time of the occurrence. The Organization has not demonstrated that Carmen were employed and on duty in Carrier's Yard. Accordingly, a key element of its claim is missing. The Board has no alternative but to dismiss the claim on this basis.








This Board, after consideration of the dispute identified above, hereby orders that an award favorable to the Claimant (s) not be made.


                          NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

                          By Order of Second Division


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 17th day of November 1994.