{"id":15598,"date":"2012-02-03T17:29:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T17:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utu.org\/?p=15598"},"modified":"2012-02-03T17:29:10","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T17:29:10","slug":"utu-member-killed-in-ind-rail-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/utu-member-killed-in-ind-rail-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"UTU member killed in Ind. rail accident","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
GARY, Ind. \u2013 Michael M. Shoemaker, 55, a conductor and member of UTU Local 1383, was killed Jan. 30 in a switching accident on at U.S. Steel\u2019s Gary Works here. Reports are that he was wedged between two freight cars.
\nShoemaker, of Hobart, Ind., was an 10-year employee, of Gary Railway, which is owned by U.S. Steel.
\nReports indicate he was working as a foreman in a three-person conventional switching operation when the car he was riding \u201cimpacted the side of the standing equipment that the crew had placed\u201d on an adjacent track, pinning him.
\nThe accident is being investigated by the Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
\nShoemaker is the first UTU member to be killed in a rail accident in 2012. In 2011, there were 10 rail fatalities among UTU members; and 12 in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
GARY, Ind. \u2013 Michael M. Shoemaker, 55, a conductor and member of UTU Local 1383, was killed Jan. 30 in a switching accident on at U.S. Steel\u2019s Gary Works here. Reports are that he was wedged between two freight cars. Shoemaker, of Hobart, Ind., was an 10-year employee, of Gary Railway, which is owned by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[644,9,18],"tags":[1467,1016,1468],"member_types":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n