Two Amtrak maintenance workers were using opioids or cocaine when there were struck and killed south of Philadelphia last year by a passenger train whose engineer was on marijuana, according to federal officials.
The revelation and the nationwide opioid epidemic lead House Democrats on Tuesday to ask Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao to require transportation industry workers — truck drivers, bus drivers and railroad operators — tested for four prescription opioids.
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