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Accident Investigation Summary Report FE-2021-20

On Friday, October 29, 2021, at 4:06 a.m. CDT, a WATCO Rail Services (WATX) brakeman was fatally crushed between a semi-trailer tanker truck and a railcar while riding the point of a shove movement at the Greens Port Industrial Park in Houston, Texas. The semi-truck failed to yield to the train...