A Canadian National Railway employee died early Monday morning during switching operations at its Surrey, B.C., rail yard.
CN Rail tells Global News that it happened at 2 a.m., and provided no further detail.
The Transportation Safety Board confirmed it is deploying an investigator to the Thornton Yard in Surrey, after the incident occurred during switching operations.
WorkSafeBC confirms it is not investigating the incident as CN Rail is federally-regulated.
In December, a 56-year-old locomotive engineer from Mission was killed at a Canadian Pacific train yard in Port Coquitlam. A cause of death was not released.