Government sues Union Pacific over using flawed test to disqualify color blind railroad workers
The federal government has joined several former workers, including some who worked in Arizona, in suing Union Pacific over the way it used a vision test to disqualify workers the railroad believed were color blind and might have trouble reading signals telling them to stop a train.
Dangerous crossings: Rail safety takes on added urgency for Corporation Commission
Nine people at the state’s fourth branch of government watch over thousands of miles of railroad tracks and inspect train cars as they move through Arizona.