‘Survivor’ contestant Caleb Bankston dies in accident while working on railroad in Alabama
Posted June 26, 2014 12:04 pm.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Caleb Bankston, a former contestant on the “Survivor” reality show, has died in a railway accident in Alabama. He was 27.
Jefferson County Deputy Coroner Bill Yates says Bankston, who was working at the Alabama Warrior Railway in Birmingham, was thrown from a train in a partial derailment on Tuesday.
The Alabama Warrior Railway, only a few miles long, is used by industries in Birmingham to haul coal and other materials.
Bankston, of Collinsville, Alabama, appeared on “Survivor: One World” in 2012 and “Survivor: Blood vs. Water” in 2013, according to the show’s website.
Officials from Pittsburgh, Kansas-based transportation firm Watco Companies, which owns the railway, said Bankston’s co-workers were being offered counselling.
