Fatality Investigation: Track Panel Slides Off Forklift, Fatally Injuring BNSF Railway Foreman
A late-morning accident in May 2015 left a BNSF Railway employee dead after a track panel slid off a forklift, striking the engineering foreman. The investigation shows there was no safety briefing beforehand.
The National Transportation Safety released a final report into its investigation of a Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway incident on May 25, 2015 which left one employee dead.
The incident, which happened at BNSF’s Minneapolis location, began as a forklift operator attempted to unload two track panels from a flat car. However, one panel slid off the forklift and truck two trains passing on the adjacent main track.
