On August 12, 2019, about 5:09 a.m., local time, westbound CSX Transportation (CSX) freight train H70211 collided with the side of eastbound CSX freight train W31411 at a switch near Carey, Ohio. The trains were operating on the CSX Columbus Subdivision which extends 90.6 miles from Columbus, Ohio, to Fostoria, Ohio. Each train’s crew consisted of a conductor and a train engineer. The lead locomotive of the westbound train and railcars loaded with refuse in positions 1 through 4 were derailed onto their sides from the collision. The eastbound train derailed 21 railcars, loaded with frac sand, in positions 6 through 26. As a result of the collision, the eastbound and westbound train engineers suffered minor injuries. Collision damage was estimated at $4.9 million. No placarded hazardous material railcars derailed. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) identified the following safety issues: train handling and performance, CSX random drug- and alcohol-testing program, inward- and outward-facing image recorders, railroad switching operations in territory with positive train control. As a result of this investigation, the NTSB makes safety recommendations to the US Department of Transportation; the Federal Railroad Administration; the Association of American Railroads, the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association, National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Alaska Railroad, and the American Public Transportation Association; and CSX. NTSB also classified two recommendations to the Federal Railroad Administration.


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    Titel :

    Collision of Two CSX Transportation Freight Trains Carey, Ohio August 12, 2019. Accident Report


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2020


    Format / Umfang :

    46 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch