I'm trying to display product (or variation of configurable product) image inside of shipment email. I was able to accomplish this inside of Order emails but my current setup doesn't work inside of shipment emails

I’m trying to display product (or variation of configurable product) image inside of shipment email. I was able to accomplish this inside of Order emails but my current setup doesn’t work inside of shipment emails.

Here’s what I have so far:

Magento_Sales/templates/email/items/shipment/default.phtml

// @codingStandardsIgnoreFile
/** @var $block \Magento\Sales\Block\Order\Email\Items\DefaultItems */

/** @var $_item \Magento\Sales\Model\Order\Item */
$_item = $block->getItem();
$_order = $_item->getOrder();
$imageSize = (int)$block->getConfig('sales_email/imageconfig/image_resize');
if($imageSize <=10)
$imageSize = 135;
$_imagehelper = $this->helper('Magento\Catalog\Helper\Image');
if($childProd = current($_item->getChildrenItems()))
{
    $productImage = $_imagehelper->init($childProd->getProduct(), 'category_page_list', array('height' => $imageSize , 'width'=> $imageSize))->getUrl();
}
else
{
    $productImage = $_imagehelper->init($_item->getProduct(), 'category_page_list', array('height' => $imageSize , 'width'=> $imageSize))->getUrl();
}
?>
<tr>
<td class="item-image">
    <p class="product-image"><img src="<?=$productImage?>" title="<?= $block->escapeHtml($_item->getName()) ?>" alt="<?= $block->escapeHtml($_item->getName()) ?>" /></p>
</td>
<td class="item-info<?php if ($block->getItemOptions()): ?> has-extra<?php endif; ?>">
    <p class="product-name"><?= $block->escapeHtml($_item->getName()) ?></p>
    <p class="sku"><?= /* @escapeNotVerified */  __('SKU'); ?>: <?= $block->escapeHtml($block->getSku($_item)) ?></p>
    <?php if ($block->getItemOptions()): ?>
        <dl class="item-options">
            <?php foreach ($block->getItemOptions() as $option): ?>
                <dt><strong><em><?= /* @escapeNotVerified */  $option['label'] ?></em></strong></dt>
                <dd>
                    <?= /* @escapeNotVerified */  nl2br($option['value']) ?>
                </dd><br />
            <?php endforeach; ?>
        </dl>
    <?php endif; ?>
    <?php $addInfoBlock = $block->getProductAdditionalInformationBlock(); ?>
    <?php if ($addInfoBlock) :?>
        <?= $addInfoBlock->setItem($_item->getOrderItem())->toHtml() ?>
    <?php endif; ?>
    <?= $block->escapeHtml($_item->getDescription()) ?>
</td>
<td class="item-qty"><?= /* @escapeNotVerified */  $_item->getQty() * 1 ?></td>
</tr>

The same code works for order emails, but this one doesn’t work and leads to crashing the “Send Tracking Information” button in admin to not work.