{"id":5226,"date":"2013-01-02T10:07:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T18:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/?p=5226"},"modified":"2013-04-03T15:11:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T22:11:34","slug":"norfolk-southern-railroad-worker-injured-in-fort-wayne-indiana-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/5226\/norfolk-southern-railroad-worker-injured-in-fort-wayne-indiana-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Norfolk Southern Railroad Worker Injured in Fort Wayne Indiana Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT WAYNE, IN &#8212; A Norfolk Southern railroad worker was injured on Monday morning, Dec. 24, after falling onto the railroad tracks and had a hand and foot amputated, according to emergency radio traffic.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5229\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5229\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5229\" title=\"fort-wayne-in-norfolk-southern-railroad-worker-accident-location\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/fort-wayne-in-norfolk-southern-railroad-worker-accident-location.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/fort-wayne-in-norfolk-southern-railroad-worker-accident-location.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/fort-wayne-in-norfolk-southern-railroad-worker-accident-location-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5229\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View of the railroad tracks in Fort Wayne, IN where a Norfolk Southern railroad worker lost a foot and a hand in a serious work related injury after falling on the tracks while a train was being moved on December 24, 2012.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->The accident occurred at around 7 a.m. near Hanna and Hayden as a general merchandise train was moving onto a storage track. Emergency workers told the media that they searched for about 15 minutes before finding the victim.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5231\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5231\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5231\" title=\"fort-wayne-in-norfolk-southern-railroad-worker-accident-map\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/fort-wayne-in-norfolk-southern-railroad-worker-accident-map.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/fort-wayne-in-norfolk-southern-railroad-worker-accident-map.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/fort-wayne-in-norfolk-southern-railroad-worker-accident-map-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map showing location near Hayden and Hanna Street in Fort Wayne, IN where a Norfolk Southern railroad worker was seriously injured while a train was being moved onto a nearby storage track on December 24, 2012.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Norfolk Southern spokesman Dave Pidgeon, did confirm that a male employee was hurt in a work-related accident but would not discuss the person&#8217;s condition or the nature of his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do know we had a member of a train crew injured at about 7 o&#8217;clock in the Fort Wayne area,\u201d Pidgeon said.<\/p>\n<p>The employee was taken to a local hospital by ambulance, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident remains under investigation at this time.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Posted by Gordon &#038;amp Elias, a FELA lawyer and <a title=\"Indiana railroad injury lawyer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/CM\/FELA\/Indiana-FELA-Lawyers.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"> Indiana railroad injury lawyer<\/a> who publishes train accidents and FELA legal news from across the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORT WAYNE, IN &#8212; A Norfolk Southern railroad worker was injured on Monday morning, Dec. 24, after falling onto the railroad tracks and had a hand and foot amputated, according to emergency radio traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,40,12,3],"tags":[283,44,239],"class_list":["post-5226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fela-law","category-indiana-railroad-news","category-norfolk-southern-railroad","category-railroad-worker-injuries","tag-ft-wayne-railroad-injury-lawyer","tag-indiana-fela-lawyer","tag-indiana-railroad-injury-lawyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226","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=5226"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5562,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226\/revisions\/5562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}