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The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) is investigating a deadly crash involving a and a construction worker.

Around 2:15 p.m. on Tuesday, MCSO’s Transit Police Division deputies responded to a 911 call indicating that a person was struck by a MAX Blue Line train on East Burnside Street at Southeast 141st Avenue in Portland.

Portland police officers and Portland firefighters arrived and determined the person did not survive the collision. The person killed was identified as 61-year-old Anthony Davis of Salem. Davis was a member of a Moore Excavation Inc. construction crew working on a project at the corner of East Burnside Street and Southeast 141st Avenue, the sheriff’s office stated in a press release.

During the investigation, Transit Police Division deputies learned Davis walked onto the tracks in front of an eastbound MAX train. According to the report, the MAX train operator sounded the horn and attempted to stop the train using the emergency brake system but was unable to stop the train in time to prevent a collision.

Davis did not use a pedestrian crossing, and it is unclear why he was on the tracks, the press release states.

As part of the investigation, East Burnside Street was closed in both directions between Southeast 139th and 143rd Avenues for about three hours. The Multnomah County Medical Examiner’s Office is assisting with the investigation.