(The Winnipeg Sun posted the following article on its website on March 30.)
WINNIPEG — A CN worker was seriously injured in what officials are calling as an industrial accident at a Winnipeg rail yard.
The company refused to indicate how badly the man was hurt in the accident about 7:40 p.m. Tuesday other than to say the man suffered “a serious injury to his leg,” said CN Rail spokesman Jim Feeny.
He would not confirm rumours the man’s leg was amputated.
“I can provide you with no information about that,” Feeny said.
Described as an “experienced rail employee,” the worker was injured while in the course of routine duties, at the Transcona Yards on Pandora Avenue, Feeny said.
“He was working in a rail yard where we load rail onto cars for movement along our network.”
An official with the Steelworkers union said the man was working on the “continuous welded rail,” but wasn’t aware of his injuries.
A spokeswoman with Health Sciences Centre said he was hospitalized in stable condition yesterday.
The accident was reportedly under investigation by a federal agency.
Most workplace accidents are investigated by the province, but railways are a federal responsibility, a provincial government spokesman told the Sun.