(Source: National Transportation Safety Board, July 22, 2024)
On March 7, 2023, about 1:08 a.m. local time, a Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) conductor on NS train C75B106 was killed when the train collided with a dump truck as it entered a private highway-railroad grade crossing in the Cleveland-Cliffs Incorporated steel plant in Cleveland, Ohio. The conductor was riding the lead railcar during a shoving movement when he was pinned between the railcar and the dump truck during the collision. The conductor killed in the accident, Louis P. Shuster, 46, of Broadview Heights, Ohio, was president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen Division 607 in Cleveland.
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