ARLINGTON (AP) – The National Transportation Safety Board said a loose, improperly fastened rail joint led to a 2017 derailment in a North Texas rail switching yard that killed an employee.
The body of 48-year-old Jon Beckman of Frisco was found underneath a freight car the morning of September 22, 2017.
In a report released Tuesday, the NTSB said the track in the Union Pacific Great Southwest Yard in Arlington was exempt from federal rail track safety standards.
The exemption allowed for inadequate track conditions to exist on the regularly used track.
The agency has not said why the track was exempt.
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