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WELLINGTON, KS — The town of Wellington, Kansas, has rallied around Kevin Beggs, 45, a well-known resident of Wellington. Beggs, a BNSF railroad employee, was injured over a month ago on July 9, 2013, when he was pinned under the wheels of a rail car with critical injuries to his lower legs. It took 45 minutes to extricate him from under the rail car.

Photo shows injured BNSF railroad worker, Kevin Beggs (middle), three weeks after the train accident. Also in the photo (left to right) are: Molly Beggs, Andrew Schipley, Elliot Beggs, Kevin Beggs, Melinda Schipley-Beggs, Daniel Schipley, Jackson Beggs and Beth Gaston.

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WELLINGTON, KS – A BNSF railroad worker was critically injured after getting pinned under the wheels of a rail car in Wellington, KS on July 9, 2013. Wellington is located in Sumner County, KS in the southern part of the state about 35 miles south of Wichita near the northern border of Oklahoma.

Map shows location where a BNSF railroad worker was critically injured after getting pinned under the wheels of a rail car just west of Fair St in Wellington, KS on July 9, 2013.

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MCPHERSON COUNTY, KANSAS 9TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT – Railroad injury lawyer, Gordon &amp Elias, LLP, represent a 46-year old railroad worker from San Antonio, Texas, who was performing his duties as a conductor/engineer while in the employment of Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad, when he was caused to suffer physical injuries due to the negligence of Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad.

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MCPHERSON, KS. – Two empty tanker cars fell off the tracks after a train derailed on Friday morning, Feb.17, on a spur of the Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad between Woodside and Euclid streets in McPherson.

Rail car being lifted following Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad train derailment in McPerson, KS on February 17, 2012. Photo credit: Ken Ward/McPherson Sentinel

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TOPEKA, KS – Thirty-two rail cars jumped the tracks in a massive Union Pacific train derailment in Topeka, KS on Monday, November 14, 2011.

Union Pacific coal cars piled up like an accordion along the bank of the Kansas River in a 32-car train derailment on Monday, November 14, 2011 just northeast of downtown Topeka, KS.

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EMMETT, KS – A Union Pacific train derailed in Emmett, Kansas on Monday, September 5, 2011 spilling about 5,600 tons of coal and demolishing a rail bridge.

Photographs of the bridge over Cross Creek in Emmett, Kansas before and after the Union Pacific coal train derailment virtually demolished the bridge and spilled about 5,600 tons of coal.

Emmett is located in Pottawatomie County, Kansas in the northeastern part of the state about 35 miles northwest of Topeka. ... Read More

ABILENE, KS – Elmer “Butch” Hulse, 59, of Wakarusa, a worker for Union Pacific Railroad, was killed when a 1995 Ford passenger car struck his pickup Sunday afternoon, August 28, when the cross arms didn’t come down at an intersection just east of Abilene.

Rail crossing in Abilene, KS just south of Old U.S. 40 where a Union Pacific railroad worker was killed on August 28, 2011. The victim was traveling westbound in a pickup truck fitted with wheels for railroad tracks when it was struck at the rail crossing by a passenger car traveling southbound on Jeep Rd.

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EMPORIA, KS – The death of a pedestrian that occurred early Wednesday, Aug 17, on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad tracks, may have been the result a drag racing incident outside of Emporia, according to KVOE News.

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KANSAS CITY, KS. – At approximately 1:30 p.m. Monday, August 15, Kansas City Police received a call that the body of a BNSF railroad worker was found on the railroad tracks near 42nd Street and Kansas Avenue.

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KIOWA, KS – A man was injured when his stalled SUV was hit by a train in Kiowa, KS on Monday, April 11, 2011.

Kiowa is located in Barber County, Kansas in the southern part of the state on Oklahoma’s northern border, about 90 mile southwest of Wichita. ... Read More