Former reality television contestant Caleb Bankston, who competed on Survivor: Blood vs. Water in 2013, died in a train derailment, according to reports.

People magazine reported that Bankston, 26, who worked at the Alabama Warrior Railway, died when his train derailed in Birmingham, Ala., on Tuesday.

Bankston finished the game in ninth place. He was engaged to marry fellow contestant Colton Cumbie this fall.

In his brief biography for CBS network, which has aired Survivor since 2000, Bankston described himself as “hard-working, hard-headed and (an) outdoorsman.”

He also said he appeared on the show with Cumbie “to help show America what love looks like because it doesn’t matter whether it is between two men, two women, or a man and woman. Love is love and I love Colton.”

Fellow former contestant Aras Baskauskas told People magazine: “Caleb was an amazing man and friend.”

“One of the sweetest and most sincere humans I’ve ever come across. I am gutted by his loss. My thoughts and prayers are with his family.”