FRA investigates accidents and incidents as determined by the Accident Analysis Branch or regional management. Generally, FRA investigates accidents and incidents meeting the following criteria:

Any collision (main or yard track), derailment, or passenger train incident resulting in at least one fatality or serious injury to railroad passengers or crewmembers.

Any railroad-related accident resulting in death to an on-duty railroad employee, including an employee of a contractor to a railroad, regardless of craft.

Any highway-rail grade crossing accident resulting in any of the following:

Death to one or more persons being transported in a commercial vehicle or school bus.

Serious injury to several persons being transported in a commercial vehicle or school bus.

Death to three or more persons in a private highway vehicle.

Accidents involving grade crossing signal failure or allegations of grade crossing signal failure.

Any non-casualty train accident resulting in derailment of a locomotive, 15 cars or more, and extensive property damage.

Any train accident/incident resulting in a fire, explosion, evacuation, or release of regulated hazardous materials, especially if it exposed a community to these hazards or the threat of such exposure.

Any accident/incident involving a train transporting nuclear materials.

Any train incident involving runaway or rollaway equipment, with or without locomotives.

Any collision involving maintenance-of-way or hi-rail equipment.

Any accident caused by failure of a locomotive or any part of a locomotive, or a person coming in contact with an electrically energized part that resulted in serious injury or death of one or more persons.

Accidents resulting from signal failure including Positive Train Control-related failures and malfunctions.

Any other train accident/incident likely to generate considerable public interest.

Most Amtrak accidents/incidents.

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3 years ago

An etymologist studies _____.

OleMash [197]

An etymologist studies <span>the origins of words. The correct option among all the options that are given in the question is the first option. The other choice given in the question are incorrect and can be easily negated. I hope that this is the answer that you were looking for and it has actually come to your help.</span>

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3 years ago

Gender schema theory states that gender typing emerges as children gradually develop gender schemas of what is gender appropriat

Rasek [7]

The statement above is true. The Gender schema was formally presented by Sandra Bem in 1981 as an intellectual hypothesis to clarify how people move toward becoming gendered in the public arena, and how sex-connected attributes are kept up and transmitted to different individuals from a culture.

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4 years ago

Shortly after becoming president, James Monroe Select one: a. acted to limit the future influence of Federalists. b. called for

natali 33 [55]

Answer:

C. undertook a goodwill tour of the country.

Explanation:

James Monroe was known to be the fifth president of the United States and served from 1817 - 1825.

He was best known for establishing the foreign policy principle that came to bear his name, the Monroe Doctrine.

The Monroe doctrine was embedded in a routine annual message , which was delivered in 1823 to the congress. And the importance of the doctrine is that, it warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization .

In this case, in his attainment as the president of the United States , he undertook a goodwill tour of the country, in order to show concern to the people.

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