A seven year-old child in Chillhowie, Virginia (VA) survived an oncoming train by lying under the rails, but his grandfather and sister were killed. According to police in Chilhowie, Louis Perry, 52 and Nevaeh Fields, 6, were killed when the train slammed into them as they were fishing from a railroad trestle June 30. The…
New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services Commissioner Jerry Hauer The U.S. Department of Transportation requires all railroads operating trains containing large amounts of Bakken crude oil to notify local first emergency responders about the operation of these trains through their locales. BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Railroad are reported to have…
A nasty oil train derailment in Canada killed more than 45 people in 2013, which spurred regulators in the US and Canada to make changes to train safety regulations. But many say the changes are not enough. The Delaware chapter of the Sierra Club has noted in recent weeks that while the railroad and oil…
In Hurricane, West Virginia, a father is fighting to seek justice against CSX, the City of Hurricane, and the Putnam County Board of Education for his son’s tragic death. The wrongful death lawsuit was filed in 2012 and is back in Putnam Circuit Court. A hearing is set for 2015. On January 29, 2012,…
A federal court jury in Maine recently decided in favor of a former Springfield Terminal Railways rail yard supervisor who claimed the railroad had illegally terminated his employment after he made official complaints about unsafe working conditions and practices. The incident that prompted the plaintiff’s actions involved a diesel fuel spill that another employee with…