Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 739284 - Railroad employee crushed and killed by railroad car

Accident Summary Nr: 739284 -- Report ID: 0452110 -- Event Date: 02/27/1994
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
123803165	02/28/1994	3312	0	Armco Steel Co, Lp

Abstract: Employee #1, a remote-control locomotive operator, was alone in an area east of the scale and was switching cars out of a drag and placing them on various tracks. Employee #1 was apparently cutting off an end car when the fatal accident occurred. He was found crushed between the rails at the end of the drag. The car that was cut sat 68 feet in the opposite direction. Employee #1 may have been crushed between couplings. His pelvis was fractured.

Keywords: RAILROAD CAR, CAUGHT BETWEEN, CRUSHED, PELVIS, RAILROAD

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	123803165			Fatality	Fracture	Locomotive operating occupations

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