Train operator killed at Arkansas steel mill, authorities say

An employee at the Nucor-Yamato Steel Co. plant in Blytheville died on the job after getting caught between two rail cars Tuesday afternoon, officials said.

Bobby Sellars was a locomotive operator who worked at the steel company for 27 years and was fatally injured while working in the rail yard, said general manager Leon Topalian in a news release.

He was working around 3:45 p.m. when he got stuck between two rail cars, said Mississippi County sheriff's office spokesman Maj. Larry Robinson. Sellars, who was 54 and a resident of the county, was pronounced dead at the scene, Robinson said.

The mill suspended operations immediately after the fatality, and officials from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration will investigate the incident, the release said.

"I want to express my sympathies to the family and friends of Bobby Sellars," Topalian stated. "We are deeply saddened by this event."

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