OSHA: Trains Aren’t the Only Things Blowing the Whistle at Union Pacific
OSHA finds Union Pacific Railroad disciplined a locomotive engineer for reporting a workplace injury.
Union Pacific Railroad fosters a “culture of retaliation,” according to OSHA, and owes a whistleblowing injured worker $350,000 in damages. According to the agency, which handles complaints from workers in a number of industries through the Whistleblower Protection Program http://www.whistleblowers.gov , more than 200 whistleblower complaints have been logged against the railroad since 2001.
“Union Pacific strongly disagrees with OSHA’s findings in this case. We will appeal,” said a Union Pacific spokesperson.
