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On September 22, 2021, at approximately 2:40 p.m., CDT, a contractor for Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) was fatally injured while performing maintenance work on a bridge in Castroville, Texas, near Milepost 240.65 on UP’s Del Rio Subdivision. The contractor, operating a hi-rail excavator...
On March 10, 2022, at approximately 10:33 a.m. PDT, a Caltrain Commuter Railroad Company (PCMZ) southbound passenger train collided with three stationary on-track maintenance vehicles at Milepost (MP) 11.6 in San Bruno, California. The collision caused a fire, derailment of the locomotive's...
On August 25, 2021, at 5:08 p.m., CST, a collision involving three freight trains occurred at Milepost (MP) 429.752 on BNSF Railway Company’s (BNSF) St. Paul Subdivision, St. Paul, Minnesota.
On December 8, 2021, a fatal accident occurred involving an employee of the National Salvage and Service Corporation (NSSC), referred to as the decedent. The decedent, employed as a laborer since August 5, 2019, was responsible for grading, marking, cutting, and assisting with the stockpiling of...
On November 9, 2022, at around 11:20 a.m., CST, a BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) employee, who was part of a work crew moving a heavy switch point, was fatally injured when the load fell and struck him.
On August 4, 2023, an accident occurred along the Berkshire Line operated by the Housatonic Railroad (HRRC) in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, resulting in the death of a laborer employed by The Middlesex Corporation (XMDD). The employee, who had been working on a Massachusetts Department of...
On May 10, 2023, Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NS) freight train 14M derailed nine cars at Milepost YG 75.56 on the NS Youngstown Line in New Castle, Pennsylvania. The derailment was caused by the failure of the left No. 1 (L1) roller bearing on car CRDX 3017, with the...
On March 7, 2023, at approximately 1:08 a.m. EST, a Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NS) conductor was fatally injured when Train C75B106 collided with a dump truck at a private road crossing in Cleveland, Ohio. The accident occurred on NS’s Cleveland Branch Line near a steel mill owned by...
On February 3, 2023, at 8:54 pm EST, Norfolk Southern (NS) Train 32N derailed at Milepost (MP) 49.5 on main track 1 of NS’s Fort Wayne Line Subdivision of the Keystone Division in East Palestine, Ohio. The train was hauling 149 freight cars, including 20 tank cars containing hazardous...
On July 13, 2021, at approximately 10:35 p.m., CDT, a Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NS) conductor suffered a left arm amputation while attempting to mount moving equipment. The accident happened during a switching move in Burns Harbor Yard, on NS’s Toledo East Subdivision, in Burns Harbor,...