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Headings: FRA – Federal Railroad Administration Drug Testing Consortium
FRA – Federal Railroad Administration Drug Testing Consortium
FRA-MOW Drug Testing
CFR Part 219
Post-Accident Testing
Compliance With FRA Drug and Alcohol Testing

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FRA – Federal Railroad Administration Drug Testing Consortium
Join FRA DOT Owner-Operator Random Consortium
Join FRA DOT Company Random Consortium
Order a DOT Drug Test
In 2011, 17 Amtrak workers failed random drug tests. Maintenance workers killed by an Amtrak train near Philadelphia in 2016 were on drugs when the crash happened. Federal regulators say they've seen an uptick in drug use by rail workers in recent years. The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) deals with railroads in the United States. Railroads are required by law to monitor and control drug and alcohol use among their employees. This was the result of a 1987 accident in Chase, Maryland, which killed 16 people and injured 147. In that accident, it was the engineer of a now-defunct railroad that ran three lights and caused his train to collide with Amtrak's train. It was determined later that he was under the influence of marijuana. The 1987 crash was one of the factors that led to Congress passing the Omnibus Transportation Employee Testing Act of 1991. This created required drug and alcohol testing programs for Department of Transportation (DOT) regulated employers.