NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

Award Number 20780

THIRD DIVISION Docket Number SG-20680

William M. Edgett, Referee

(Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen PARTIES TO DISPUTE:

(Kansas City Terminal Railway Company

STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the General Committee of the Brotherhood
of Railroad Signalmen on the Kansas City Terminal Railway Company:

On behalf of Signal Maintainers R. Norman and D. E. Eatherton for four hours pay each at the regular rate for October 20, 1972, account officials trying to correct a power failure without calling any signal maintainers on duty or on the Call List.

/Carrier file: SG-2.73.22/

OPINION OF BOARD: Carrier leases a building to Kelly-Hill and provides
them with electrical power which is fed from a small
building on the property known as a fan house. The fan house contains
several oil switches which control the power feeding from it. On the
date of claim, Kelly-lIill notified the office of the Signal and Communi
cation Engineer that a power failure had occurred in their building.

Carrier's Signal and Communication Engineer and its Signal and Cc=unication Supervisor, went to the fan house. They observed that an oil switch had burned out and determined that work to correct the power failura could be postponed until the following Monday. On that date and on the following day a signal gang corrected the power failure.

Running through this claim is the contention that the supervisors who went to the site did not go to but actually went to determine the cause and to make a repair. The burden of proving that contention record, even under the most favorable reading, does not contain facts which would permit the Board to conclude that the activity of the two supervisors went beyond permissable supervisory inspection. Accordingly the claim must be dismissed.

Award Number 20780 Page 2

Docket Number SG-20680

FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, upon the whole record and all the evidence, finds and holds:

That the parties waived oral hearing;

That the Carrier and the Employes involved in this dispute are respectively Carrier and Employes within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act, as approved June 21, 1934;

That this Division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein; and

That the Claim must be dismissed.

A W A R D

Claim dismissed.

NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

By Order of Third Division

ATTEST:i ~~ Executive ecretary

Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 31st day of July 1975.