Rail Employee Fatality Investigation Report For 2017 Montreal Yard

An 8 November 2017 investigation report details a fatal workplace incident involving a Canadian Pacific Railway employee at the St-Luc Yard in Montréal, Quebec. The report is authored by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada and published on the Open Canada platform. It was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze narrative descriptions of the incident sequence to identify common causal factors in yard accidents.
• Extract location features like 'Adirondack Subdivision' and 'Mile 46.9' for geospatial analysis of incident hotspots.
• Use the date '08 November 2017' and company name 'Canadian Pacific Railway' for temporal and organizational trend analysis in safety reporting.

Strengths

• Report provides a detailed, official account from a national transportation safety board.
• Data is current, with a platform record last updated in March 2026.

Limitations

• Dataset consists of a single incident report, offering no statistical sample for analysis.
• Core data features like incident narrative and location are locked in PDF/HTML format, requiring extraction.

Provenance

Source

Transportation Safety Board of Canada (Bureau de la sécurité des transports du Canada).

Collection Method

Official safety investigation.

Time Range

Incident date: 08 November 2017.

Freshness

Record was last updated on the platform in 2026, though the incident date is 2017.

Geography

St-Luc Yard, Montréal, Quebec, Canada; Adirondack Subdivision, Mile 46.9.