Western Railroad Discussion > CN RR Bridge Crane in Mississippi

I saw this alert this morning about the incident involving a railroad locomotive crane and bridge crew moving a concrete girder . It appears that there are 4 injured employees but no fatalities.
FYI

Railroad Accident/Incident
Notification And Initial Investigation Report
SYNOPSIS

March 2, 2015, at 1056 hrs, the George County, Mississippi Sheriff's Office in Lucedale, Mississippi received a report of a Railroad Crane derailment near Agricola Latonia Rd with Injuries. George County District 1 first responders from Rock Creek, Bexley, and Pittman Volunteer Fire Departments responded. ASAP ambulance service responded. According to CN Bridge supervisor, the CN bridge crew of 8 (6 CN employees, 2 contract employees) were moving a 60 ton crane with a 26 foot concrete girder northbound on to the south end of the bridge. Approximately 60 feet on the bridge, the girder was moved and the "old pilings" collapsed under the bridge causing the CN bridge crane (CN 50300) to fall through the bridge. The crane had 1 operator. 4 employees were injured. The bridge is on the CN Beaumont Subdivision at MP 28.4. The maximum authorized speed for trains is 49 mph. The railroad is dark territory. This is not an Amtrak route. The inury list is as follows:

Employee #1 (3 amputated fingers)
Employee #2 (broke finger)
Employee #3 (injured hip)
Employee #4 (piece of steel in finger)

The employees were working under "Planned Work" for protection.

Employee #1 was transported by ASAP ambulance service at 1154 hrs to Providence Hospital in Mobile, Alabama.
The remaining three injuries were also treated at Providence but were not taken by ambulance.
Hulcher is enroute at this time and the CN Railroad Police are assisting with traffic control.

God i hate to hear this ... well these guys want to do is go to work in a job get home safely the same way they went to work ... somebody will definitely be in hot water for the inspection on that bridge

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Curious what the weight of the concrete beam would be.

Sounds like a pretty dramatic event. With all respects to the crew and hopes for speedy recovery, it sounds like the bridge needed replacement.

N 30.85942 W 88.42322

Plug the above coordinates into your favorite map program. You can see bridge work activity underway.

RailNet802, over

Thanks for the coords...
http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=30.85961,-88.42307&z=19&t=S

Ted Curphey
Ontario, OR