Norfolk Southern sued by widow over trainee conductor’s decapitation

Walter James Griffin was killed when train he was training on passed a stationary freight car with a protruding metal beam

An Alabama woman whose husband was decapitated when the Norfolk Southern train he was training on passed a stationary freight car with a protruding metal beam is suing for wrongful death. The lawsuit comes at a difficult time for the rail giant, which must contend with litigation over a recent toxic derailment in Ohio.

Walter James Griffin III, 43, was training to become a conductor when he was killed in Bessemer, Alabama, on 13 December, al.com reported.