Keep Safety Rates on the Right Track.
The nation’s largest railroad came to us with a challenge. After seeing initial declines in their reportable employee injury and safety incident rates, stagnation set in. The railroad had...
Protecting the Public at Rail/Highway Crossings
Vehicle-train collisions at railroad crossings is a significant problem in North America...
Uncovering Adverse Safety Trends
Two companies were looking to identify developing trends in safety incidents with their employees...
Making a Railroad’s Employees Safer – An Open Source Case
After seeing the success of our project at another railroad, this company asked us to do...
Food Safety in Meat Processing Plants
A company that provides products and services to the animal health industry was looking to help meat...
Text Mining to Understand Accidents
A transportation company maintains a database of accidents. Along with data about each incident, textual narratives...
Predicting Legal Claims Costs
The senior general counsel of a company with tens of thousands of employees who sometimes work in hazardous conditions...
Focusing on Human Factor Derailments
A Class I railroad began focusing on reducing human factor derailments. Though incidents reported..
Is the Safety Triangle Valid?
A client for whom we had implemented a predictive safety analytics dashboard came to us with an interesting research proposition...
Pandemic Response
In the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic our clients and other companies needed...
Weather Data in Analytics
Weather plays a factor in many of the subjects our case studies. Although the weather is often...