15 December 2005
Ice Fall Kills CPR Worker
Rogers Pass - A Canadian Pacific Railway worker was killed yesterday after being hit in the head by an
enormous sheet of ice.
The unidentified 44-year-old Bowden man was cleaning ice from the ceiling of a tunnel near the Rogers Pass in B.C.'s
Glacier National Park, about 200 km west of Calgary.
STARS air ambulance spokesman Lance Stephenson said a chunk of ice weighing an estimated 300 kg hit the member of CP Rail's track crew.
He was pulled from the tunnel and flown by Alpine helicopter service to nearby Golden, B.C. STARS in Calgary received the call at
1:35 p.m., flew to the B.C. interior and brought the injured man to Foothills hospital.
Stephenson said the man lost massive amounts of blood. He died in hospital.
CP Rail spokesman Ed Greenberg said the man's death is a loss that's felt company-wide.
"Thoughts go out to his family from the entire CP family."
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