An engine operator was injured in a Cass County train derailment.

About 6:45 a.m. Monday, Cass County Central Dispatch received a call about the derailment at the Waelz Sustainable Products plant at 3440 West County Road 300 South. An employee of WSP had been operating the locomotive to move four rail cars within the production facility when the locomotive and first hopper car overturned and left the tracks.

The other three cars did not overturn. None of the cars were loaded and no chemicals were released.

The operator, Shane Baber, 51, of Logansport, was flown to Parkview Hospital by medical helicopter with non-life threatening injuries. He was later released.

The Cass County Sheriff’s Department, Clymer’s Fire Department, Cass County Emergency Management and Cass County EMS responded.

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