2015 Mount Carbon train derailment

When

16 Feb 2015

Kind

Rail accident

Coordinates

38.15° N, 81.29° W

Description

2015 West Virginia derailment

Deaths

0

Injured

1

2015 West Virginia derailment

The 2015 Mount Carbon train derailment refers to a derailment in Mount Carbon, West Virginia, on February 16, 2015, which involved a CSX Transportation train hauling 107 tank cars of crude oil from North Dakota to Virginia. It resulted in a large oil spill that caught fire with several subsequent large, violent eruptions.

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