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Metro-North

Robot types: Automation operator / site. Risk band: Low   RobotRisk index 11.4/100 (severity- and time-weighted incidents) · ranked 37 of 40 among Other companies with incidents (142 tracked).

Analyst brief

Metro-North's record contains one entry: the December 2013 Spuyten Duyvil derailment, a fatality event rated severity 5, attributed in the record to the absence of positive train control or an alerter system to catch engineer error. This is a single catastrophic event with no regulatory citation entry accompanying it in the data provided. The record shows no pattern beyond this one entry.

Risk index

11.4/100RobotRisk index
23.2/100Median index across the 40 Other companies with incident history (142 tracked, 102 with none)
37 of 40Rank in Other (of 40 with incident history)
LowRisk band

Products and robot types

Industries: Other

Risk is scored per product and robot type: each incident is attributed to the product it names, or to the company's matching robot type.

Robot typeShare of company riskRank within type
Automation operator / site100%11 of 13

Incident timeline

Comparisons over time

Per-type breakdown

Incident typeUnique incidentsShare
fatality1100%

Unique incident list

1 unique incident on file for this company.

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S501 Dec 2013 fatality Bronx, NY, USASpuyten Duyvil derailment - no PTC/alerter to catch engineer error · 1 train / 4 fatalities, ~70 injured The New York Times
S5 01 Dec 2013 · fatality · Spuyten Duyvil derailment - no PTC/alerter to catch engineer error
Bronx, NY, USA1 supporting source rowhigh confidence
SevDateSupporting source rowSource
S501 Dec 2013Spuyten Duyvil derailment - no PTC/alerter to catch engineer errorThe New York Times

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