For people that live or work along a certain street in Wytheville, Virginia (VA) the sight of twelve different trains passing through daily is no reason to be concerned. However when a train derailed and scattered 14 cars along the street that was a surprise and a reminder that railroad injuries happen more often than…
Andres Tapia was going about his day as a switchman for the Belt Railway of Chicago when his life came to a sudden, tragic end. He was crushed to death between two rail cars in a hump yard. Fellow railroad workers found Tapia after his remote control device sent out an automatic “man down” alert. He was…
There are numerous negative health effects associated with prolonged exposure to diesel exhaust fumes including breathing impairments (often called occupational asthma or “diesel asthma”) and lung cancer. Now, studies show a correlation between exposure to diesel exhaust fumes and bladder cancer. The Clean Air Task Force released a study in 2008 showing a 13 percent increase in…
After a CSX freight train hit an articulated boom lift stuck on the tracks outside of Newburgh, New York (NY), three locomotives and 16 rail cars derailed and four railroad workers went to the hospital with injuries. The collision happened at a grade crossing on River Road in the Rockland County community of New Windsor…
Two BNSF employees died after being struck by one of their company’s freight trains as they worked on tracks just north of Edgemont, South Dakota (SD). The fatal on-the-job accident happened near an overpass for U.S. 18 on the morning of January 17, 2017. No details on why the deadly train collision in…