{"id":2969,"date":"2011-05-25T09:47:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T16:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/?p=2969"},"modified":"2013-04-03T15:11:40","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T22:11:40","slug":"railroad-worker-loses-arm-in-iowa-train-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/2969\/railroad-worker-loses-arm-in-iowa-train-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Railroad Worker Loses Arm in Iowa Train Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOONE, IA &#8211; A railroad worker had an arm amputated following a train accident in Boone, IA on May 23, 2011.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2973\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2973\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2973\" title=\"union-pacific\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/union-pacific.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/union-pacific.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/union-pacific-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2973\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Union Pacific Locomotive<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Boone is located in Boone County, Iowa in the central part of the state about 50 miles northwest of Des Moines.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The railroad worker whose name has not been identified, is reported to work for the Union Pacific Railroad.<\/p>\n<p>The accident occurred around 4:30 a.m. on Monday in the Boone rail yard near the south end. The railroad worker was getting off a locomotive and was hit by a passing train.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2975\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2975\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2975\" title=\"boone-ia-union-pacific-train-accident-map\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/boone-ia-union-pacific-train-accident-map.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/boone-ia-union-pacific-train-accident-map.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/boone-ia-union-pacific-train-accident-map-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2975\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map of train accident in Boone, IA near the south end of the rail yard.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The railroad worker, whose name is not being released by Union Pacific, was seriously injured and was airlifted to a hospital in Des Moines.<\/p>\n<p>The accident is currently under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Published by <a title=\"fela lawyer\" href=\"..\/blog\" target=\"_blank\">FELA lawyer<\/a> news blog at Gordon &#038;amp Elias, LLP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOONE, IA &#8211; A railroad worker had an arm amputated following a train accident in Boone, IA on May 23, 2011. Boone is located in Boone County, Iowa in the central part of the state about 50 miles northwest of Des Moines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,3,84,36,9],"tags":[4,31,136],"class_list":["post-2969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-railroad-news","category-railroad-worker-injuries","category-railroad-workers","category-train-accidents","category-union-pacific","tag-fela-lawyer","tag-iowa-fela-lawyer","tag-railroad-injury-lawyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2969"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5703,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions\/5703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}