Collision of Two CSX Transportation Freight Trains Carey, Ohio August 12, 2019. Accident Report
Collision of Two CSX Transportation Freight Trains Carey, Ohio August 12, 2019. Accident Report
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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Collision of Two CSX Transportation Freight Trains Carey, Ohio August 12, 2019. Accident Report
2020
46 pages
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