Local railroad incidents over the past 10 years, not counting Thursday’s death, include:
10 in Crow Wing County with two resulting in death. One person died in 2014 and the other in 2018.
10 in Cass County, with one fatal in 2019.
Seven in Morrison County, but none resulted in death.
Two in Aitkin County, but neither were fatal.
Four in Wadena County, but none were fatal.
Eight in Todd County, with one fatal in 2013.
In the entire state since 2012, there have been 1,848 incidents involving people injured on a railroad and 93 of them were fatal.
Law enforcement at the scene of a stopped train shortly after 9 a.m. at Northwest Fourth Street in Brainerd. Jennifer Kraus / Brainerd Dispatch
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