(The Associated Press circulated the following article on October 14.)
PAJARO, Calif. — A train worker is dead after a bloody accident on the tracks outside Watsonville.
Union Pacific employee Darrell Clyde Thompson was killed Friday morning while conducting switching operations.
The Monterey County coroner says both of the 49-year-old victim’s legs were severed in the accident involving a Union Pacific locomotive and railroad cars.
A Union Pacific spokesman says the accident is still under investigation.
Local officials say the National Transportation Safety Board is now looking into the matter.