March 10, 2023 | Fatality, News, NS
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, March 10 — Services for late BLET member Louis P. Shuster will be held next week. Brother Shuster, who served the BLET as President of Division 607 (Cleveland), was killed while working for Norfolk Southern on March 7. Brother Shuster was the...
March 8, 2023 | East Palestine-NS, Fatality, FRA, Headlines, NS, NTSB
(Source: Associated Press, March 7, 2023 Federal investigators are opening a wide-ranging investigation into one of the nation’s biggest railroads following a fiery derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border last month and several other accidents involving Norfolk...
March 8, 2023 | Fatality, Headlines, NS, NTSB
(Source: CNN, March 8, 2023) A Norfolk Southern conductor was killed Tuesday after being struck by a dump truck at a facility in Ohio, prompting a National Transportation Safety Board investigation of the railway’s safety culture due to the “number and...
March 7, 2023 | Fatality, News, NS, NTSB
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, March 7 — Louis P. Shuster, a proud member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET), employed as a Norfolk Southern conductor, was struck and killed early Tuesday when a dump truck collided with a train car in Cleveland. “Lou...
March 7, 2023 | Fatality, Headlines, NS
(Source: Television station WKYC, March 7, 2023) A Norfolk Southern employee has died following an incident in Cleveland after a collision between a Norfolk Southern train and a Stein Inc. dump truck early Tuesday morning. A spokesperson for Cleveland-Cliffs tells...
March 2, 2023 | BNSF, Fatality, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Trains Magazine, February 27, 2023) A lack of markers warning of a close-clearance situation was the probable cause of a fatal accident involving a BNSF Railway conductor in La Mirada, Calif., on March 3, 2021, the National Transportation Safety Board said...
January 18, 2023 | Fatality, Headlines, NS, NTSB
(Source: Television station WIAT, January 17, 2023) BESSEMER, Ala. — New details have been released regarding a Norfolk Southern employee who died on December 13. The National Transportation Safety Board issued a preliminary report regarding the incident where the...
January 11, 2023 | Fatality, FRA, Headlines, NS
(Source: Trains Magazine, January 6, 2023) In the wake of a fatal accident on Norfolk Southern last month, the Federal Railroad Administration has issued a safety bulletin urging railroaders to conduct pre-departure inspections to ensure that no objects are protruding...
December 15, 2022 | Fatality, Headlines, UP
(Source: Television station KVIA, December 14, 2022) EL PASO, Texas — The family of a deceased conductor who was killed in an on-duty accident is suing Union Pacific Railroad. Mario Navarro was killed on August 29 when a train passing through a construction zone hit a...
December 14, 2022 | Fatality, Headlines, NS
(Source: Television station WBRC, December 13, 2022) BESSEMER, Ala. — One person was killed this morning in a railway accident in Bessemer according to officials. Bessemer police say a train conductor trainee was killed. Bessemer Police and Investigators from Norfolk...
