An arial view of the CP rail yards in Regina - Date unknown Karen Brownlee.

12 January 2013

Workplace Fatality at Regina Railyard

Regina Saskatchewan - A Canadian Pacific Railway employee died while working at the Regina railyard early Saturday morning.
 
CP spokesman Kevin Hrysak confirmed Saturday afternoon that a workplace fatality involving a CP employee happened shortly before 3 a.m. in the 1400 block of South Railway.
 
"The company's deepest sympathies go out to the employee's family and friends," Hrysak said. "Our main concern right now is with them at this time."
 
Family members have been notified of the death.
 
Hrysak said the CP employee is a Regina resident, but would not release any further details about the individual.
 
"This is an internal matter," he said. "We have launched a thorough internal investigation that will look into what led to this incident and obviously what took place as well."
 
The fatality took place in the railyard so it did not affect the mainline operations, he said.
 
"We did halt traffic so we could take all of the necessary steps to gather all of the information and do a thorough investigation," Hrysak said.
 
The CP police are at the site of the fatality working with a number of groups who are investigating the death including local responders, Transport Canada, and the Transportation Safety Board.
 
"We do have a full team out here conducting an investigation," Hrysak said.
 
He did not know how long investigators would be at the scene.
 
"We will be on scene as long as it's required to do a thorough investigation," Hrysak said. "These types of investigations can go anywhere from a week to upwards of a year for a thorough investigation before any details are released."
 
When asked if there have been previous workplace fatalities involving CP employees, he said:  "I know we haven't had one in Canada for a number of years, but I don't have specifics on when the last incident was."
 
He said grief counsellors are available through the company's family assistance plan.
 
"To those directly involved with it and other employees who were just around," Hrysak said.
 
Pamela Cowan.

Vancouver Island
British Columbia
Canada