NA21CRAL RAILROAD ADwsWWr BOM

Award amber 21134

THIRD DIVISION Docket Number W-20910

Francis x. Quian, Raferee

(Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen
PARTIES TO DISPITMs
Ttis Long Island Rail Road Company

STAMM OF CLAIM! Claim of the General Committee of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen on the Lang Island. Rail Road:

Appeal on behalf of a reprimand assessed Joseph A. Pasdl7.a on the charge:

Violation of Safety Rule 3126 paragraphs y&e,qe and wGs while working on 118 switch at Jay Interlocking an May 5, 1973.

OPIMIOR O! HOARD: In order to justify discipline for an alleged riaa-
ticn of a safety role, there should be some evidence that the employe violated that rule, er otherwise performed his work in a careless manner. Our review of the record finds such evidence wasting. Therefore, we will smstain the clsis-

lAMWW: The Third Division of the Adjustment Hoard, upon the whole record and sill the evidence, finds and holds:

That the parties waived oral hearing;

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

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

That the Agreement was violated.

A W A R D

Claim sustained.

NATIONAL RAILROAD ADOMMTM91T HOARD By Order of Third Division ATTEST:

Executive e y

Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 30th day of July 1976.