BART has set aside over $500,000 to fight citations for violations dating back to 2019, as Cal/OSHA considers fining the agency more than $200,000 over a 2024 incident where managers allowed employees to work on a live track, and BART is blaming the workers.
As NBC Bay Area’s Jaxon Van Derbeken reports, Cal/OSHA is considering hitting BART with more than $200,000 in new fines over alleged safety violations tied to track replacement work inside the Berkeley–Orinda Hills tunnel in November 2024, where crews were reportedly allowed to work on a live track without proper clearance.
Fortunately, no one was injured, unlike a deadly incident in 2013 in which two BART engineers were struck and killed by a train that was being operated by a trainee, as SFist reported at the time…