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You also have to remember the carriers decide the cause of the accident and they are not unbiased. Just because the equipment didn't fail doesn't mean that it wasn't caused by the procedures necessary to run the RCO. For example, if there is a signal loss the RCL sets all of the brakes including the train brakes. In some cases that is not the proper thing to do. If someone is shoving 100 cars with air in the head 15 or 20, that last thing you want to do is dump the air. It would be like riding on the end of a bull whip. Many of the accidents happen because there is no one watching the end of a movement when they hit something, quite often they hit with the locomotive. Neither of these examples were equipment failure. But the were caused by the different manner in which the job is preformed because it is an RCO. Since I have been working on the railroad two switchman and one roadmaster have died in my terminal. The roadmaster was hit by a car rolling off the hump while he was on a track the yardmaster did not block. Both switchman were killed in the bowl on hot tracks by cars set in motion by the hump. They weren't paying close enough attention to their surroundings. Operating the box distracts from the attention paid to the surroundings. The whole mechanical failure statistic is a red herring meant to take away the focus from the real dangers of the RCO. They want to say the RCO is save because the equipment did not fail, nothing is further from the truth.
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