OIL TRAIN DERAILS OUTSIDE OF PITTSBURGH
February 14, 2014
Twenty-one cars from a train carrying Canadian crude oil and propane to the east coast derailed near Pittsburgh, in the latest in a string of oil train accidents.
Norfolk Southern officials said between 3,000 and 4,000 gallons of thick Canadian crude leaked out of three cars that overturned on an eastbound train bound for New Jersey in Vandergrift, Pa. The train was carrying Canadian oil to an asphalt plant near Philadelphia.
Shortly before 8 a.m. Thursday, the train derailed and hit an industrial building in the small industrial town in Westmoreland County, 25 miles east of Pittsburgh. The building is owned by MSI Corporation, a metals processing firm.
There were no reported injuries. First responders set up a containment area for the spilled oil before it could get into the nearby Kiskiminetas River, said John Poister, spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. Though no crude made it into the river, public drinking water facilities downstream were also alerted.
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