But when headcounts have been cut to the bone, who’s left to watch your back?”ĪugCumberland, MD - Travis Bradley, a CSX Transportation conductor trainee was killed in the Cumberland, Md., yard early this morning, with the accident prompting the railroad to impose a safety stand down for its 350 conductor trainees. “Railroading is a dangerous environment, and there’s long been a culture of watching out for each other. If so, this would mark the third Carman fatality involving remote-control locomotives,” Transportation Transportation Communications Union & Brotherhood of Railway Carmen National President Artie Maratea said in a statement. “Our understanding is that this fatality a remote-control locomotive. He is survived by his wife and an adult son. SeptemWalbridge, OH - Fred Anderson, a CSX Transportation Carman who had worked for the railroad for 19 years. A National Transportation Safety Board report released February 7th stated: On January 15, 2024, about 5:30 a.m., an Ohio Central Railroad signal maintainer was found deceased by the crew of Wheeling & Lake Erie freight train 218-15 on the main track of the Columbus and Ohio River Railroad east of the New Rumley Road highway-railroad grade crossing (grade crossing) near Jewett, Ohio. Jewett, OH - An Ohio Central Signal Maintainer was killed on the job. Wednesday "when the locomotive the engineer was in was struck by freight cars." In a statement, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen said Wilson, 55, was a member of the union, and a 30-year employee of Norfolk Southern. A spokesman with the National Transportation Safety Board said the accident took place at 5:15 p.m. Brother Howell was a foreman on the T6 system production gang when he was struck by the ballast regulator.įebruDecatur, AL - Brother Chris Wilson who worked for Norfolk Southern was critically injured in its Decatur rail yard Wednesday and died Thursday at Huntsville Hospital, according to the NTSB and Morgan County Coroner Jeffrey Chunn. Brother Howell, 41, of Allied Federation Lodge 563, died following a road crossing incident in Roanoke Rapids, N.C. 2024įebruRoanoke Rapids, NC - CSX Track Foreman Randall M. Or you can contact the National Association of Retired & Veteran Railroad Employees (NARVRE) HERE. Some historical records of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (BRT) can be found HERE. ** If you are searching for information about deceased railroaders, please note that RWU has no more information than what is posted here. In that effort we work to publicize ALL on-the-job fatalities. The current administration and Congress continues to strip enforcement capabilities by reducing the powers and budgets of those vital agencies.Īlso, we continue to see the reluctance of corporate owned, national media to focus any light on workers’ fatalities and injuries and the glaring lack of enforcement of safety regulations.Īs a part of our efforts to promote safety for all railroaders, we also want to help promote safe work sites for all workers. Over 4,800 workers were killed on-the-job in 2015.Īlthough by law, we are entitled to a safe workplace and it is our employers’ responsibility to provide it, we are continuing to see less enforcement of the safety laws by the government agencies who are required to enforce those laws. Unfortunately, according to OSHA statistics, there are an average of 13 on-the-job fatalities in the entire U.S. At the bottom of this page you will find some links to various railroad injury & fatality references. If you know of anyone that we missed on this list, please email us with the information. Meanwhile, RWU will continue to honor every fallen brother or sister, regardless of craft or union.īy no means can we guarantee that our list below is complete, but we will try to make it as complete as possible and it will remain a work in progress for quite some time. We must continue to build the rank-and-file solidarity that will empower us to take real action when it comes to on-the-job safety. Our brothers & sisters continue to be killed on the job and what we see from the railroads are continuous testing harassment and ineffective "blame the worker" safety programs. (This list is best viewed on a computer monitor)
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