Friday, July 3, 2015

CSX railroad worker injured after fall from moving train car in Wellington, Ohio


A worker was injured after a fall from this train Thursday in Wellington Township.
A worker was injured after a fall from this train Thursday in Wellington Township.

WELLINGTON, OHIO 

A railroad company employee fell six feet from the top of the train he was working on in Wellington and had to be hospitalized Thursday. 

About 2:30 p.m. Thursday the 63-year-old man and other CSX employees were working atop a slow-moving train in Wellington just west of Webster Road.

The workers were unloading rails and other equipment around the track when the man fell from the top of the train, according to Assistant Fire Chief Bill Brown. 

He injured his head in the fall and was found by first responders conscious but having difficulty breathing, Brown said. 

Wellington police and firefighters from Wellington Fire Department responded. The man was flown to MetroHealth Medical Center, Brown said. 

Firefighters did not have the name of the man or where he was from Thursday.