Russian Railways Public Company suggested treating every deficiency in large-scale car casting as a potential breaking-off point and therefore calling off the manufacturing plant’s certificate of compliance, the company reports.

Now in 2011, 24 solebars got broken, including 14 cases when this was the Ukrainian Azovelectrostal and the Ukrainian Kremenchug Steel-Casting Plant’s fault (11 and 3 cases, respectively). Besides, 12 solebars of freight bogies got broken this year, including four bogies made by Azovelectrostal and four more bogies produced at Ukrainian Kremenchug Steel-Casting Plant.

‘Our previous experience has shown that the measures taken in order to make sure no railway accidents occur because of broken parts of freight bogies have had no effect and did not protect the public infrastructure from these emergencies,’ the company’s Vice President Alexander Tishanin is referred to as saying at Rostransnadzor committee meeting.

Tishanin explained that 12 cases of broken parts of large-scale car casting items were reported in 2012, and in three instances, this resulted in train crashes at Northern, Trans-Baikal, and Far Eastern Railways.

The executive said that, over the last eleven years, Uralvagonzavod Scientific Production Corporation, Azovelectrostal, Altayvagon, Promtractor-Promlit, and Kremenchug Steel-Casting Plant had been the leading top five manufacturers of deficient cast products.