COLUMBUS, Montana (AP) \u2014 Authorities were investigating the death of a rail conductor who was hit by a passing train Sunday in Montana, the National Transportation Safety Board said. <\/p>\n
The conductor worked for BNSF Railway, the agency said in a post on the social media site X. BNSF Railway operates one of the largest freight railway networks in the U.S. <\/p>\n
The incident occurred at about 9:40 a.m. in Columbus, a town of about 2,000 people 40 miles (64 kilometers) southwest of Billings. <\/p>\n
Emergency response officials weren\u2019t sure what happened other than that an individual was between two trains, said Nick Jacobs, Columbus Fire Rescue\u2019s assistant chief. One train was parked on one track and the other train was moving on another track, he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the moving one struck him somehow,\u201d Jacobs said. <\/p>\n
The NTSB and Federal Railroad Administration officials were at the scene, Jacobs said. <\/p>\n
A spokesperson for BNSF said the company was referring all questions to the NTSB. <\/p>\n
The identity of the deceased was not immediately released. <\/p>\n
A report by the Federal Railroad Administration last year found BNSF was generally striving to improve safety on a consistent basis, but that message didn\u2019t always reach front-line workers who often didn\u2019t feel comfortable reporting safety concerns for fear of being disciplined. <\/p>\n
The agency prepared the report as part of an effort to review all major railroads<\/a> to address safety concerns<\/a> after a 2023 Norfolk Southern train derailed<\/a> in East Palestine, Ohio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBUS, Montana (AP) \u2014 Authorities were investigating the death of a rail conductor who was hit by a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,28,24895,3827,793,3326,3323,33717,3,131850,74,1022,6145,1059,795,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-238462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-business","tag-columbus","tag-domestic-news","tag-general-news","tag-montana","tag-mt-state-wire","tag-national-transportation-safety-board","tag-news","tag-nick-jacobs","tag-technology","tag-texas","tag-transportation","tag-tx-state-wire","tag-u-s-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}