Brother Sassman was an engineer & a member of BLET Division 692 of Tracy, CA. The crew consisted of an engineer, conductor, yardmaster, switchman and Mr. Etheredge. On July 17, 1981, the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, suffered the structural collapse of two overhead walkways. St. Clair Richards-Stephens, 23, was a 6-month employee of MTA. Brother G.D. Shelby, 61, was killed when the westbound freight train on which he was the engineer collided with an eastbound coal train about two miles west of Clarendon. It remains Canadas third worst train disaster. June died in the fire. Brother Gallis died as a result of his train hitting a track wash out. His son, C.W. The procedures involved in track maintenance require one employee to inspect the track and the other employee to act as a lookout for any oncoming traffic, it said. Racing against Monster Energy Supercross points' leader Eli Tomac, Cooper Webb crashed on Lap 1 of Heat 1 in the Nashville round at Nissan Stadium and suffered an injury that required him to be. One of his closest friends, Shane Collins, also know as Doctor Shane, handed out stickers for people to show their support and offer prayers for Jasons recovery. Kansas City skywalk collapse: 114 people were killed 40 years - CNN The canyon surrounding the tunnel remained filled with thick, acrid smoke, however, and until they examined the wreckage, firefighters said, they wouldn't be able to tell whether any trucks had been hauling toxic chemicals. Brother Burckhard was a BNSF locomotive engineer and member of BLET Division 695 in Minot, N.D. View court, arrest, criminal/conviction They later welcomed his son Ryan RJ into their family. He joined the Brotherhood effective February 1, 2013. The accident occurred at Herzogs railcar repair shop, just off Easton Road on County Road 55. He was a member of Transport Workers United Local 100. Hall, President of BLET Division 592 (Dalhart, Texas), was killed in the line of duty on June 24, 2012. From the Economic History Association: History of Workplace Safety in the United States, 1880-1970, From the Monthly Labor Review: Railroad-related work injury fatalities, From the National Transportation Safety Board: Railroad Accident Reports, From Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA): Accident Search Results for "Railroad", From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA), From the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA): The Federal Railroad Safety Program - 100 Years of Safer Railroads, From BMWED & BRS: Fatality Analysis of Maintenance-of-Way Employees & Signalmen (FAMES), From Association of American Railroads (AAR): Employee Rail Safety Initiatives, From FRA: Background on FRA Railroad Accident/Incident Investigations, From Switching Operations Fatality Analysis (SOFA): Switching Fatality and Severe Injury Update 2012 First Quarter, From Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) : Fatalities and Injuries of On-Duty Railroad Employees, From SOFA: Severe Injuries to Train and Engine Service Employees: Data Description and Injury Characteristics July 2001, USMF: United Support & Memorial for Workplace Fatalities. July 26, 2020 Lindenwold, PA - A PATCO Hi-Speedline worker was killed Sunday at the transit line's train yard and repair facility in Lindenwold. February 1, 1996 - Cajon Pass, CA - Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company freight train H-BALT1-31 derailed at milepost 60.4 near Cajon Junction, California. Trending News DJ Shane Collins giving out "Tunnell Tough" stickers - WJHG Thedford, NE - 6/8/94 "Collision and Derailment involving three Burlington Northern Freight Trains". As it began to approach the incapacitated Honda, an AC Transit bus driven by 55-year-old John Dykes Jr. tried to squeeze past the tanker. March 27, 2018 Sparta WI A Canadian Pacific conductor was killed in a train accident while working at Cedar Creek Lumber in Sparta. Deputies said Limon was suffering from obvious trauma to his upper body and was pronounced dead at the scene. He was a member of SMART-TD Local 1386 (Parkersburg WV). Member of Division 284. Ontario's Labour Ministry is also investigating. Its routine that we would be conducting regular inspections during operating hours, SEPTAs Assistant General Manager Scott Sauer said. He was Peter Poching from Lincoln CA. He was thrown into the side wall of an empty car, and then fell to the ground between parallel tracks. He was a contract employee who was working for Industrial Railroad Services. ", Miranda Valles is seen in an undated photo riding her motorcycle. The locomotive engineer was thrown off and sustained serious injuries. CP Railroad police are said to be investigating. Engineer David Butler, 51 years old at the time of death, a member of BLE Division 192, El Paso, Texas. display: block; Unfortunately we were unable to locate obituaries for them. July 11, 2006 Memphis, TN Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (BNSF) 52 year-old car inspector with 23 years, 10 months of service was struck by on-track equipment while searching for a defective rail car. Marie was a Union Pacific locomotive engineer and a member of BLE Division 366 in Houston, Texas. December 5, 2012 - Glade Springs VA - Crews from Norfolk Southern were cleaning up the debris and repairing the track where a truck was hit by a train Wednesday. The accident occurred on tracks about a mile north of Interstate 40 near the Meteor Crater exit. Rossville, KS - July 2, 1997 - Engineer Michael E. Brown, 46, was killed in a collision of two Union Pacific Railroad trains. Small, Texas - May 13, 1998 "Union Pacific Engineer and Conductor killed off duty when taxi is hit by train". But after the horror of having a picture of her daughter's remains circulate online, Dawn Valles, of Downers Grove, is backing a movement that seeks to outlaw the recording of such images at crash sites. February 4, 2018 Cayce SC An Amtrak train collided into the back of a CSX freight train near Cayce, SC killing two Amtrak employees and injuring more than 100 people. August 12, 2015 - Petal MS - A Norfolk Southern Railway employee, Gregory Miller, 20, of Waynesboro MS, died when he was caught between two cars while switching at the Lone Star Gas Facility. They were Kenneth Meerkatz, 28, of Polk and Junior Jay Pinto, 51, of Chinle AZ. Edited to add: In the following episode we discover that Jason is presumed dead. The train carrying 20 passengers from Hoboken was en route to Suffern, N.Y., where it was scheduled to arrive at 8:43 a.m. All of the riders transferred to another train at about 10 a.m. Service on the Main Line was suspended as NJ Transit Police investigated. August 25, 2007 - Crown Point, IN - Henry Salinas, 43, a member of UTU Local 1381 in Hammond, Ind., was killed Aug. 25 while switching rail cars at the Indiana Harbor Belts yard in Crown Point, Ind. Durham Regional Police Insp. "It looked like a bomb went off," said Los Angeles County firefighter Scott Clark, one of about 300 firefighters who battled the blaze throughout the night. January 22, 2009 - Meteor Crater AZ - A freight train struck and killed a worker operating a jackhammer on the railroad tracks near Meteor Crater this morning. Owens and Taylor were members of BLET Division 299 in Amarillo. NTSB Report. The driver of the truck, Henry Blount, also died. Both men "worked in the Maintenance of Way department, which is responsible for the care and repair of the track that the trains operate on," the website said. The man worked for Canadian National Railway. Brother Phelps entered into the United States Navy in 1972 and was honorably discharged in 1976. What Happened in the Tunnel - Wikipedia Tunnel to Towers is the preeminent 9/11 charity organization that was founded from the tragedy of that day to honor the sacrifice of the Fire Department of New York City (FDNY) Firefighter Stephen Siller, who gave up his life to save others on 9/11. Johnson said a maintenance crew had closed one direction of thetracks, so all trains were using the San Francisco-bound tracks when the collision happened. The foreman, a 21-year employee, was conscious when emergency workers flew him to Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow, where he was pronounced dead at about noon, Roderick said. "No one in here had a chance," a firefighter told the Berkeley Gazette. "Skip" York, II, a member of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen Division 811, was killed in a remote control switching accident in the Burlington Northern Santa Fe yard in Clovis, N.M., on September 2. One of Fernandos fellow workers said, Fernando was well liked by everyone he met, always had a smile, and was fun to be around. Bahr was killed not far from the Jersey Avenue station in New Brunswick around 4:45 a.m. not far from the Jersey Avenue station, according to Craig Schulz, a spokesman for Amtrak, which is leading the investigation because the incident happened on the company's tracks. He has great physicians looking after him. . 53 passengers were injured. He also fought hard for his country and our freedom, as a member of the Florida National Guard and Army from 2007 to 2013, giving up time with his own family to protect and serve ours. Melbourne Car Accident Today: Latest & Breaking Car Crash News January 26, 2010 - Rockville, MD- Federal officials investigating the deaths Tuesday of two Metro employees are trying to determine why the driver of a Metro utility vehicle did not know that the men were working behind him on the tracks. One of the men who died was Christopher Macaulay, 30, of Brentwood, N.H. Brother Mayberry left behind a wife and two sons. January 9, 2012 - Amarillo, TX - A Burlington Northern Santa Fe worker was killed Monday morning when he was struck by a railroad car and pulled underneath, Amarillo Police Department. December 14, 2019 - Washington WV - A four-year, CSX employee was killed just before 4 pm. May 17, 2019 Pueblo CO A 27-year-old, employee of Rocla Concrete, Joel Montoya, died when he was trapped between two rail cars while yard workers were reportedly moving train cars. CLICK HERE for the NTSB report. Wilmington, Del. The wreck - which took place on the busy BNSF transcon - created a large fire and forced the evacuation of area residents. June 8, 2003 Buena Park, CA - Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation - 34 years-old Conductor died early Sunday morning in Buena Park after jumping from a freight train he apparently thought was about to collide with an oncoming train, police and train officials said. Total damage was estimated to be about $8.6 million. The next thing Jason remembers is waking up in hospital. August 13, 2018 Dallas TX A conductor for the Dallas, Garland & Northeastern Railroad was killed and found dead pinned under a rail cars wheels in South Dallas. The bodies of Robert Bradford Vance, 58, of Lexington, Kentucky, and Ricky Allen McDonald, 53, of Chesapeake, Ohio, were recovered Wednesday afternoon. Investigators said they believe he might have been distracted for some unknown reason. Hall, President of BLET Division 592, and Brian L. Stone, a UTU conductor. The emergency brake slowed it just slightly before the train's supervisor in a final, desperate move threw the locomotive engine into reverse, said Dave Watson, the investigator in charge of the incident for the National Transportation Safety Board. Police released his name this morning. November 13, 2019 New York, NY - Brother Juan J. Diaz (65), of the Pennsylvania Federations BMWED Local lodge 3068 in New York City, was struck and killed by a train on Dock Bridge Wed., Nov. 13 at approximately 5:00 p.m. Brother Mike W. Hoover, 48 years old, lost his life when his Burlington Northern Santa Fe train unexpectedly encountered a mainline switch lined for a siding. All Rights Reserved. 2 on the CSXT Big Bayou Canot Bridge". Salinas, a UTU member since 2003, had been married just two months. January 14, 2004 - Kankakee, IL - A railroad worker was killed when a freight train car ran over him Wednesday in Kankakee. ** If you are searching for information about deceased railroaders, please note that RWU has no more information than what is posted here. He was a delegate in the 1991 Convention and Chairman of the Credentials Committee. Ricks was beaten to death by the Harrisons on their way to a remote Wyoming hideout, dodging police who say they tied up five women in a Utah basement. 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September 19, 2011- Elkton, MD - A CSX employee died Monday after falling from a railroad bridge over Garrett Island. April 18, 2019 Romulus NY An employee of Andersons Rail Group was killed after being struck by a train. About 1,000 family, friends and co-workers gathered at his funeral to pay tribute. The only occupant of the Pink monorail, the operator, was taken to a nearby hospital and treated and released. Kirk McClean was reportedly struck by a yard trains as he was walking across tracks after his shift had ended. IHeart Media DJ, Shane Collins said Everybodys here to root and to pray for Jason but unfortunately with this accident and this incident, right now its on Gods time. Remembering the Caldecott Tunnel fire, 40 years later - SFGATE Robert G. Chavez, 47, of Clovis, N.M., was pronounced dead at a railroad crossing about a mile east of Hereford, according to a Texas Department of Public Safety report. It was later discovered not only was Jason over the drink-drive limit but he also had ketamine in his system, despite thinking he was taking cocaine. Brother Watts was born Jan. 1, 1968, in Chicago. Waterloo Police Lt. Michael McNamee confirmed the employee was struck by a railcar just before 2:30 p.m. at the company's facility at 200 Nevada St. The medical examiner determined that the cause of death was blunt force injury of the chest, back, and abdomen. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan - April 9, 2015 - A CN conductor, later identified as 51 year old Kevin Timmerman from Melville, Sask, died as a result of injuries from an accident while working at a CN rail yard in Saskatoon. The train's conductors said they didn't feel any impact and didn't notice there was an accident until they tried to depart and had brake problems. Some state laws, including one in Illinois, do prohibit the online dissemination of a specific kind of material online, so-called "revenge porn," when one person circulates a sexually explicit image of another without the subject's consent. April 12, 2019 Wauhatchie TN A 24 year, mechanical department, CSX employee was killed in a train accident in Chattanooga. Two Amtrak maintenance-of-way employees were killed and 35 on board the train were injured, one seriously. 11 am in the morning (one hour before his end time) on the Canadian Pacific railroad. August 20, 2019 Beaumont TX A Union Pacific employee was killed when he was crushed between two rail cars during switching operations. In a recent unpublished . "Tom" Landris, a 27-year member of BLE Division 650 (Durand, Mich.), was killed in a head-on collision just outside of Detroit, Mich. Also killed was UTU Member Gary Chase. James Romansoff, 58, of Yonkers, was hit on an elevated stretch of track at 106th St. and Park Ave., the latest in a spate of serious accidents on the commuter railroad, officials said. Also, we continue to see the reluctance of corporate owned, national media to focus any light on workers fatalities and injuries and the glaring lack of enforcement of safety regulations. If an individual who is clearly intoxicated walks into a liquor store or bar, the business is forbidden by law to serve them any additional alcohol. Norfolk Southern spokesman Robin Chapman says 33-year-old Joseph Drewnoski and a colleague were inspecting the rails near Black Mountain after a mudslide around 2 a.m. Monday when a second mudslide knocked their special truck with rail wheels off the track. February 13, 2003 - Scottsbluff NE - A BNSF conductor was killed when his coal train collided with a BNSF yard train on the main track. Brother McConihay left behind a wife and two daughters. Here's how. September 15, 2018 North Platte NE The driver of a fuel truck contracted to the Union Pacific Railroad was killed in an accident in the UP Bailey Yard. James C. Campbell, 20, of Prestonsburg, KY suffered a fatal head injury while working along Canadian Pacific Railroad tracks near the village of Forreston. Trump asks for mistrial in E. Jean Carroll rape lawsuit, First Republic Bank seized by regulators, then sold to JPMorgan Chase, Texas man who lost wife and son in shooting shares story, Tornado hits Virginia Beach, damaging up to 100 homes, More Americans escape Sudan as country teeters on edge of civil war, Mental health of LGBTQ youth worsening in current "hostile political climate", Stray bullet strikes college baseball player during game, Texas police say, MasterChef Australia host Jock Zonfrillo found dead at 46, Massive clumps of seaweed from giant blob wash up on Florida beaches, Arkansas woman indicted for selling stolen body parts to Pennsylvania man. December 28, 1966 - Everett MA - Boston & Main passenger train No. Fort Worth, Texas - August 21, 1997 - A runaway Union Pacific train rolled nearly 10 miles with no one aboard and collided head-on with another train, killing two crew members and setting off a spectacular fire as more than 8,000 gallons of diesel fuel leaked from the engines and ignited, authorities said. September 14, 2009 - Gillette, Wyoming - A 44-year-old Gillette man was killed Monday when a large wall of dirt collapsed on him during a work mishap. Check Full Reputation Profile Peter John Adamovich of Lincoln University, PA and Joseph Carter, Jr. of Wilmington, DE were struck and killed. Alberta Occupational Health and Safety is conducting a preliminary investigation but said a federal investigation could be launched. Cody was killed when struck by a piece of metal while working at Railworks Track Systems in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He was honorably discharged in 1993, but after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 he decided to re-enlist in the Army and fight for our country. While a work team was pounding in rail spikes, a piece of metal split off the rail and ricocheted backwards 20 feet and struck Cody in the neck, while he was working on something else. Rocla is a supplier of pre-stressed concrete crossties and switch ties for the railroad industry. SPC Jason Wheeler and his wife Kristi and son Nicholas were escorted to their mortgage-free. Investigations are underway by several agencies, including the RCMP, Coroners Service, CN Police, Transportation Safety Board, WorkSafe BC, and Human Resources and Skills Development. The trains were operating on a single main track with passing sidings in dark (non-signalized) territory in which train movement was governed by conditional track warrant control authority through a dispatcher. NTSB REPORT, Denver, Co. - October 8th, 2014 - Dawn Trettenero died Wednesday in a railroad switching accident at an industrial complex on the 3200 block of Astrozon Boulevard, off Hancock Expressway, according to a release from the United Transportation Union. Jason was 18 years old. August 30, 2007 - Stockton, CA - Walter White, of Local 1241 in Richmond, Calif., was killed early on the morning Aug. 30 in a switching accident at the BNSFs Mormon yard in Stockton, Calif. As of June 2020, no arrest had been made in the case. The four-car train ran by the station platform and continued about 470 feet into the Metrorail yard north of the station, where it struck a standing, unoccupied subway train that was awaiting assignment. A fire resulting from the derailment and subsequent rail car pileup engulfed the train and adjacent areas. And, while it's possible these laws have set a precedent, "it's also possible courts will find that for (photographs taken in public), it's very difficult to write a law that's narrow enough where it would not chill legitimate speech.". Steve staggered out through the smoke while June, a reporter at the Piedmonter newspaper, said she was going to try to call 911 on an emergency phone in the tunnel. Brother Eddie Sanchez, Local Chairman of BLET Division 134 in Winslow, Ariz., was killed in an automobile accident while driving to represent his division as a Delegate to the BLET's First Quadrennial Convention in Las Vegas. Leonard Mathis, a brick mason in Graniteville, was driving home from a convenience store just after the accident occurred. The truck driver had just filled his tanker with propane at the Conoco-Phillips LP underground storage facility south of Medford before the accident. Connor's LinkedIn page says he had been with BNSF for eight years, first as a locomotive electrician and most recently as a mechanical foreman. The engineer of N-48 and the conductor and flagman on Train N-49 were killed. Robert J. Hemling of Randolph WI was a member of SMART TD Local 590 and leaves behind a wife and two daughters.
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