Incident date: 2022-03-25
NAICS industry code: 331210

On March 25, 2022, an employee had just detached a string of empty rail cars away from some loaded cars. The string of detached cars was being taken ahead, and the employee began pulling the knuckle of a rail car into the open position. The string of detached cars then momentarily came back, and the employee was pinched between two cars. The employee suffered a broken right hip and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by rail vehicle-transportation incident
code_source: title: Train, locomotive, rail car, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hip(s)
severity: moderate