This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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The Transportation Safety Board has publicly acclaimed that it will be thoroughly investigating into the actions and practices of the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway company (MMA), i.e. the company which owned the oil carrying trains that derailed in Lac-Mégantic. Chair of TSB, Wendy Tadros, gave her remarks about the investigation while she was visiting the derailment site on Friday, when she alleged that the investigation will include every aspect of the MMA’s rail operations.
Todros mentioned that “this will be an incredibly complex investigation,” while elaborating that “it will be intensive. And I want to be clear: it will take months or more.” She added that TSB will be conducting an in-depth scrutiny of the railway company’s safety management system and the organizational factors that lead to the accident. Previously, the chairman of MMA, Ed Burkhardt, informed media that majority of the responsibility of the accident lays on the train engineer. He stated that “it seems that adequate hand brakes were not set on this train, and it was the engineer’s responsibility to set them.”
However, in response to Burkhardt’s statement, Tadros replied that “at the TSB we hold by the theory that no accident is ever caused by one thing and it’s always a series of things.” It was added “and it always involves the organization. It never comes down to one individual.” Additionally, Tadros pointed out that the investigation is aimed at providing lessons learned from what she called the most devastating rail accident in Canadian history.
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