Accident Investigation Summary Report FE-2021-20
Document Series
Accident Investigations
Accident Date
Accident Type
Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Incident (HRX)
Railroad Name
WATCO Rail Services (WATX)
Location
Houston, TX
United States
Accident Number
FE-2021-20
Subject
Accident Investigations
Keywords
WATCO Rail Services, WATX, Employee Fatality, Houston, Texas, grade crossing, shove movement
On Friday, October 29, 2021, at 4:06 a.m. CDT, a WATCO Rail Services (WATX) brakeman was fatally crushed between a semi-trailer tanker truck and a railcar while riding the point of a shove movement at the Greens Port Industrial Park in Houston, Texas. The semi-truck failed to yield to the train, which was moving in reverse, over a private highway-rail grade crossing with passive warning devices (crossbucks and a stop sign), resulting in a collision of the truck and the train.
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Last updated: Wednesday, December 20, 2023