Freight Train Derails in Southwestern Wisconsin
A BNSF freight train derailed on Thursday in southwestern Wisconsin, injuring four crew members and sending two containers into the Mississippi River but causing no environmental damage, officials said.
BNSF said in a statement that the train derailed at about 12:15 p.m. local time near the village of De Soto, Wis., which hugs the Mississippi River, near the border of Iowa and Minnesota.
Two of the three locomotives and an unknown number of cars carrying “freight of all kinds” were involved, the statement said. Two containers went into the Mississippi River, but they did not contain hazardous materials, the statement said.
Some of the containers that derailed on the shore contained paint, lithium-ion batteries and oxygen, said Jim Hackett, Crawford County’s emergency management director, at a news conference Thursday night. The materials did not pose a hazard to the public because they remained on land, he said.
Source: The New York Times
