A 32-year-old Tukwila man was hit and killed by a train early Thursday in the Steilacoom area.
The Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office has ruled Ryan E. Stieer’s death as an accident.
He was killed early Thursday on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad tracks in the Steilacoom area, the office reported.
No other information about what happened was immediately available.
UPDATED: Amtrak trains are under a 48-hour moratorium to insure the slope than slide onto the main line is stable, BNSF spokesman Gus Melonas said.
The slide this morning covered about 25 feet of the tracks closest to the hillside to a depth of about two feet, he said. That material will be cleared and freight trains will be allowed to run on it by 3:30 p.m.
The other set of tracks was not hit by the slide as much and is now open to freight trains only.
He said the slide was caused by super saturation of the 65-foot …