PUBLIC LAW BOARD NO. 5383
BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS )
VS.
) Parties to Dispute
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UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY )
STATEMENT OF CLAIM:
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Union
Pacific, former Chicago and North Western
request the Division compensate Engineer R. M.
Guinn for all time lost including time spent
at the investigation and that this incident be
removed from Claimant's personal file when he
was investigated on September 29, 1981 regarding
the following charge:
"Your responsibility for the derailment of CNW 128009 at Hanly, Iowa at
about 1:40 A.M. on August 27, 1981,
while employed as crew members on
Extra 6934 South, called for 11:15 P.M.,
August 26, 1981, at Des Moines, Iowa."
FINDINGS
Upon the whole record and all the evidence, the Board
finds that the parties herein are Carrier and Employee within
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the meaning of the Railway Labor Act, as amended, and that the
Board is duly constituted by agreement and has jurisdiction
of the parties and of the subject matter.
Claimant Fireman (Student Engineer) was found responsible -
in connection with a derailment and he was disciplined with
five (5y days actual suspension.
The essential facts are that a setout was made of a
bad-order which was twenty-seven (27) cars deep from the engines.
A portion of the car was shoved a few feet beyond the stubend of the track being used. Claimant was operating the engine
at the time and was moving according to radio instructions from
a member of his ground crew.
The Board has reviewed the transcript of investigation in
this case and we find that there is not adequate evidence to
determine that Claimant committed a rule violation. The engines
were twenty-seven (27) cars from the point of the derailment.
There is nothing in the record to show that he did other than as
directed by a trainman who testified that Claimant acted
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,promptly tend properly". Accordingly, the discipline must be
set aside.
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Claim is sustained.
ORDER
The Carrier is ordered to make this Award effective
within thirty (30) days from the date shown below.
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