GORE, W.Va. -- Workers are continuing to clean up diesel fuel and coal that spilled during a train derailment in Harrison County.
GORE, W.Va. -- Workers are continuing to clean up diesel fuel and coal that spilled during a train derailment in Harrison County.
Two locomotives and five freight cars derailed Saturday in Gore after a CSX train hit debris from a rock slide.
CSX spokesman Bob Sullivan tells The Exponent Telegram that 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel leaked.
No one was injured in the derailment. An employee of a contractor hired by CSX to clean up the site was injured Sunday when a crane struck him in the head.
Sullivan says CSX is working with the state Department of Environmental Protection on the cleanup.
He says the company is investigating the derailment.
GORE, W.Va. -- Workers are continuing to clean up diesel fuel and coal that spilled during a train derailment in Harrison County.
Two locomotives and five freight cars derailed Saturday in Gore after a CSX train hit debris from a rock slide.
CSX spokesman Bob Sullivan tells The Exponent Telegram that 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel leaked.
No one was injured in the derailment. An employee of a contractor hired by CSX to clean up the site was injured Sunday when a crane struck him in the head.
Sullivan says CSX is working with the state Department of Environmental Protection on the cleanup.
He says the company is investigating the derailment.
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