CBS affiliate KUTV reported that firefighters worked for more than three hours to free Frame, who was crushed from the waist down by a load of steel plates at the Roper train yard in South Salt Lake. He was trapped for a total of eight hours.
Frame’s family told News Center 7 that he is homeless and was jumping trains in an attempt to get to California. His mother said doctors are giving them updates by phone and the family will travel to Utah on Saturday to be with him.
Salt Lake officials told KUTV that a homeless man had hitched a ride on a train from Denver and was lying on the flat bed of a rail car loaded with steel when the plates shifted and fell on him.
A dog that was with Frame was crushed as well, and did not survive, according to KUTV.