ROANOKE RAPIDS, N.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate an incident today in which a CSX Transportation employee was struck and killed by moving equipment, according to an NTSB social media post.
WRAL-TV reports the incident occured about 1:30 p.m. and involved the member of a crew installing ties, and that the Federal Railroad Administration is also investigating. A safety alert from the FRA indicates that the worker killed was a 41-year-old tie gang foreman with 17 years of railroad service, and was struck by an on-track ballast regulator as workers flagging a grade crossing turned their attention to an oncoming vehicle.
Roanoke Rapids, on CSX’s Northend Subdivision, is about 8 miles south of the Virginia-North Carolina state line, and about 70 miles northeast of Raleigh, N.C.
— Updated Feb. 14 at 11:45 p.m. CT and Feb. 15 at 9:25 a.m. with additional details.
We would normally get a on duty briefing about things like this…but the AFHT reporting office is a hall of ghosts…no management, scant supplies, broken printers and a phone to call the yardmaster, dispatcher etc. A shame we were not told of this. It might even be someone I have met.