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(Source: Flathead Beacon, March 11, 2019)

KALISPELL, Mont. — A BNSF Railway employee working in the Whitefish rail yard was taken to the hospital last week after being “clipped” by a passing train. Whitefish Fire Chief Joe Page said first responders were called to the BNSF rail yard in Whitefish shortly after 8 a.m. on March 8 after receiving a report that a train struck a worker. Page said the employee sustained non-life-threatening injuries.

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