...gallons of sulfuric acid, derailed near Gilbert, about 30 miles from Columbia. Officials tell The State newspaper that no injuries have been reported. They say no immediate danger exists because the tank car containing the acid had not leaked.
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...die for lack of a home! At a textile plant in Graniteville, S.C., there was a terrible train wreck two years ago. Tank cars carrying chlorine burst open releasing a killer chlorine spill. Nine people were killed, hundreds were injured and the...
...couldn't beat Tiger at golf or Ping-Pong. I think everyone knew he was going to be good back then."SMALLER GAS TANKS: Cars in the Coca-Cola 600 at Lowe's Motor Speedway will have 14-gallon gas tanks, NASCAR said. The reason for the...
...the wind blew him back down. Finally he stayed down and tried to crawl." - "Seventy to 100 men sought shelter on the tank car. ... A wall of water at least 25 feet high slammed into them and washed some off, and the wind blew more off, and...
...over chlorine continuing to leak from the ruptured tank car. The train had three tank cars carrying 90 tons of chlorine. With health officials...workers are focused on only one of the chlorine tank cars. One of Thursday's fatalities was the engineer...
...Bexar County, Texas, outside San Antonio, when a Union Pacific train derailed and chlorine spewed from a punctured tank car, killing three and sending 53 to the hospital. A thick cloud swept over their property and burned their skin, eyes...
...this incident shouldn't be included in the CDC report because railroads don't own most of the nation's 200,000 tank cars and aren't responsible for loading them. "Every year we handle thousands of carloads of it without any problem...
...expect a wave of patients needing medical treatment and decontamination from tons of deadly chlorine escaping a ruptured tank car. Activating their emergency response plan, hospital officials asked the 300-person night shift to stay on duty and...
...process of transferring 220 tons of chlorine from damaged tank cars gone awry. "It was very crucial to give us up-to-date...path of chlorine that continued to plume from the leaking tank car for more than three days after the 2:40 a.m. wreck...
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