According to local news station WOWK, Michael Pierson, 55, was hit by a loaded CSX coal train about 1pm local time Saturday in St Albans, Kanawha County, near Charleston.

Witnesses told the outlet the man was sitting near the tracks as the train arrived and then appeared to stumble and fall across the tracks before the eastbound train.

“Heard the train was blowing its horn,” one said.

“I mean, he blowed it from the time he got there all the way over as far as you could hear him.”

An investigation is underway. CSX security video of the incident will be reviewed to try to determine cause.

All indications at this time point toward an accident, WOWK reported, with no railroad fault.

Last week, a still-unidentified man was killed after being struck by a 142-car Union Pacific coal freight train in Geneva, outside of Chicago.

The victim was found on the tracks and pronounced dead at the scene.

Union Pacific spokesman Mark Davis told media that the train, heading east from Wyoming to a utility in Wisconsin, struck a “trespasser” west of the Geneva Metra station.

The train had three locomotives and all cars were loaded with coal, Davis noted.