Railroad Accident Brief: Derailment of CSX Transportation Train No. Q39010, Oneida, New York, March 12, 2007

On Monday, March 12, 2007, about 6:58 a.m., CSX Transportation (CSX) train No. Q39010, a mixed freight train, derailed near Oneida, New York. The train was en route from Buffalo, New York, to Selkirk, New York. At the time of the derailment, the train was traveling about 47 mph. The train consisted of 3 locomotives and 78 cars. Twenty-nine cars derailed. Six tank cars were breached, including four carrying liquefied petroleum gas, one carrying toluene, and one carrying ferric chloride. An explosion and fire followed that led local emergency response officials to close two elementary schools and evacuate a 1-mile area around the derailment site. Four firefighters were taken to a hospital for observation as a precaution because they had stepped in a pool of ferric chloride. There were no fatalities. Estimated damages and environmental cleanup costs were $6.73 million. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the March 12, 2007, derailment of CSX train No. Q39010 and subsequent release of hazardous material near Oneida, New York, was the failure of the rail from an undetected detail fracture that initiated from an area of shelling on the rail.

• Record URL:
  http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/RAB0805.pdf
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• Summary URL:
  http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Pages/RAB0805.aspx
• Corporate Authors:

  National Transportation Safety Board

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  Washington, DC  United States  20594
• Publication Date: 2008-9-30

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: 13p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash causes; Crash investigation; Defects; Derailments; Hazardous materials; Railroad crashes; Railroad rails; Railroad safety
• Geographic Terms: Oneida (New York)
• Subject Areas: Railroads; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01115473
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: NTSB/RAB-08/05, Accident No.: DCA-07-MR-009
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 25 2008 7:33AM