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9/3/2025
The National Transportation Safety Board has issued a preliminary report of its investigation into an Aug. 5 accident involving a BNSF Railway Co. train conductor who was seriously injured during a collision between a moving train and standing rail cars at a Denver rail yard.
The conductor was injured during a raking collision between a moving train and standing rail cars at the BNSF Globeville Yard, NTSB officials said in the report.
The accident occurred when the train crew was performing a shoving movement to place the remainder of the train into another track when the train traversed a crossover switch line for an adjacent track and collided with standing rail cars. Three of the standing rail cars and five rail cars from train derailed. The train’s conductor was thrown from the rail car he was riding, and it toppled onto him.
The NTSB’s future investigative activity will focus on industry hazard identification and mitigation strategies, training on the proper use of switches to establish track protection, and operating procedures related to riding shoving movements, NTSB officials said in the report.