{"id":2453,"date":"2011-02-25T14:08:24","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T22:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/?p=2453"},"modified":"2013-04-03T15:11:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T22:11:41","slug":"bnsf-railroad-worker-injured-by-acid-vapors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/2453\/bnsf-railroad-worker-injured-by-acid-vapors\/","title":{"rendered":"BNSF Railroad Worker Injured by Acid Vapors"},"content":{"rendered":"

AMARILLO, TX – A railroad employee who worked for BNSF was injured on Tuesday, February 22, when a railroad tank released sulfuric acid.\u00a0 The accident occurred at 1900 S. Johnson St. and the vapors escaped the tank about 9:35 a.m., Fire Capt. Wes Hall said.<\/p>\n

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The worker was unidentified, but four Amarillo firefighters responded to the incident and arrived on the scene to treat the injured worker.<\/p>\n

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway spokesman Joe Faust said the victim appeared uninjured initially, but began to experience symptoms that concerned supervisors.<\/p>\n

Faust said the vapors appeared to escape because the tank was overfilled. The tank was in the railroad’s yard, Faust said.<\/p>\n

Firefighters did not have to decontaminate the victim, Hall said. An ambulance transported the victim to the hospital. Hall said a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway hazardous materials team was on the scene.<\/p>\n

The cause of the incident is still under investigation.<\/p>\n

Source: Amarillo.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Published by FELA lawyer<\/a> Gordon &amp Elias, LLP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AMARILLO, TX – A railroad employee who worked for BNSF was injured on Tuesday, February 22, when a railroad tank released sulfuric acid.\u00a0 The accident occurred at 1900 S. Johnson St. and the vapors escaped the tank about 9:35 a.m., Fire Capt. Wes Hall said. The worker was unidentified, but four Amarillo firefighters responded to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,3,84,74],"tags":[189,4,136,59],"class_list":["post-2453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bnsf-railroad","category-railroad-worker-injuries","category-railroad-workers","category-texas-railroad-news","tag-amarillo-fela-lawyer","tag-fela-lawyer","tag-railroad-injury-lawyer","tag-texas-fela-lawyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5737,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions\/5737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}