SOUTH DEERFIELD — A 60-year-old man from South Deerfield was killed Monday after he was struck by a northbound Amtrak train, according to Northwestern District Attorney’s Office spokesperson Laurie Loisel.

Emergency personnel were notified of a report of a person struck by a train in the area of the Pleasant Street railroad crossing at 4:11 p.m., according to Deerfield Police Chief John Paciorek.

Although a LIFE STAR helicopter was initially called to transport the victim, Paciorek said the individual, who sustained life-threatening injuries, was ultimately taken to Baystate Franklin Medical Center by a South County EMS ambulance. The South Deerfield Fire District, in a Facebook post, later stated the patient was airlifted from the Greenfield hospital to Springfield’s Baystate Medical Center. Loisel confirmed Tuesday that the 60-year-old man from South Deerfield had died at the hospital Monday evening.

According to Amtrak Senior Public Relations Manager Jason Abrams, there were no reported injuries to the 79 passengers or crew onboard the train, which was traveling from Washington D.C. to St. Albans, Vermont. The train was able to leave the scene at 7:25 p.m., Abrams said.

Passenger Michael Latham, 21, of Connecticut, said he felt the train hit its emergency brakes and he saw the victim being carried away on a stretcher. The man who was hit “didn’t have blood all over,” Latham said, but “was definitely bruised up.”

“The emergency brake came on early, because at first we thought maybe it was another train that hit something,” Latham said upon getting off the train at the John W. Olver Transit Center in Greenfield shortly after 8 p.m.

The South Deerfield Fire District, South County EMS and Deerfield Police Department were the first to respond before Massachusetts State Police, the Amtrak Police Department and officials with the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner arrived.

Monday’s incident comes just a few months after a 43-year-old Deerfield man was killed after being struck by an Amtrak train in the area of South Main Street and Thayer Street in South Deerfield in November. The man was pronounced dead at the scene, Paciorek said in November.

Anthony Cammalleri can be reached at acammalleri@recorder.com or 413-930-4429.