3 injured as freight train derails after hitting rockslide in West Virginia, spilling diesel into river
Isabella Floyd
Updated on February 08, 2026
SANDSTONE, WEST VIRGINIA: A rockslide alongside tracks has caused the crash of an unfilled coal train in West Virginia. The episode of Wednesday morning, Walk 8, has prompted the injury of three group individuals, affirmed CSX Happening. The organization in a proclamation refreshed that four trains and 22 void vehicles wrecked in Summers Province close to New Stream.
It further added that the lead train was conveying a guide, a designer, and a specialist student, burst into flames and the team individuals were being assessed and treated. In any case, all detailed wounds are non-perilous, the organization said.
CSX added that an abandoned train was somewhat in the stream and an obscure measure of diesel fuel and oil spilled at its spot. As of now, natural groups were conveying control measures.
‘No risk to people in general’ According to West Virginia Crisis The board Division, the wrecking happened in a distant region near the south of Sandstone inside the New Waterway Public Park and Protect, according to a CBS News report.
The reports guarantee that as of now numerous state organizations are engaged with observing the circumstance and said that public water frameworks downstream have been told. They will presently be watching out for any expected danger and effect on general wellbeing. “No perilous materials were being shipped and there was no risk to general society,” said CSX.
In another occurrence, a train conveying propane fuel wrecked in Florida In an irrelevant occurrence, a train in Florida extending 30,000 gallons of propane fuel wrecked on Tuesday, February 28, causing huge ecological worries. According to specialists, the train went off course while it was moving south in a modern locale toward the north of Sarasota-Bradenton Global Air terminal, reports MEAWW.