DENVER — The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released its preliminary report into a train derailment that seriously injured a conductor at a BNSF railyard in Denver last month.

The incident happened shortly after midnight on Aug. 5 at the BNSF Globeville Yard.

The Denver Fire Department said one of the train cars derailed inside the railyard around 12:13 a.m., trapping a worker. First responders freed the worker and transported him to the hospital with severe injuries to his right leg.

Carl Smith with the Sheet Metal Air Rail and Transportation (SMART) Workers Union confirmed to Denver7 that the worker was rushed to surgery and had to have his right leg amputated.

According to the NTSB's preliminary report , the derailment occurred after a moving train collided

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