Railway Worker Crushed To Death In Bihar, Probe Reveals Chilling Details: 'Coordination Gap With Colleague...'

In a tragic incident, a railway worker was crushed to death during a shunting operation at Barauni Junction in Bihar's Begusarai. An initial probe into the matter revealed that a lack of coordination between the two rail employees led to the mishap. The incident took place on platform 5 of Barauni Junction under the Sonpur Railway Division. The deceased has been identified as Amar Kumar Rao, who worked as a porter, was trying to open the coupling of the train. However, the train reversed and Rao was crushed to death.

Probe Reveals Reason Behind Death Now, an preliminary probe into the matter revealed that lack of coordination between two rail employees during a shunting operation led to one of them getting stuck in the buffers of the engine and a power car, causing his death, reported PTI. The joint report, signed by five rail officials, said the two pointsmen -- Amar Kumar and Mohd Suleman -- failed to properly coordinate with each other due to which Suleman gave the wrong signal to the loco driver, resulting in 25-year-old Kumar's death. A pointsman's job is to detach train engines from coaches.According to the joint report, the 15204 Lucknow-Barauni Express terminated at Barauni Junction at 8:10 am and the station master had assigned the task of detaching the engine from the power car and the rest of the train to Kumar and Suleman."While detaching the engine and the power car, pointsman Kumar got stuck between the two and died on the spot," the report said. Another Pointsman Defends Himself While the preliminary report has held Suleman responsible for the incident, he has defended himself in his written submission and held the loco driver responsible for the accident,the report said. Suleman said he and Kumar disconnected the engine and the power car by detaching the centre buffer coupler -- a device that connects the engine with a coach.He further said that the engine moved a bit away from the power car and, when Kumar went to close the buffer coupler, the driver reversed the engine without any hand signal from him (Suleman). "Due to this, Amar (Kumar) got sandwiched between the two buffers," Suleman said.A buffer is a shock-absorbing device on both ends of a train's engine and coaches, designed to reduce the impact of collisions between bogies. (With agency inputs)