{"id":5932,"date":"2013-04-29T08:46:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/?p=5932"},"modified":"2013-04-29T08:46:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T15:46:00","slug":"three-train-cars-derail-spilling-plastic-pellets-in-canton-ohio-rail-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/5932\/three-train-cars-derail-spilling-plastic-pellets-in-canton-ohio-rail-yard\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Train Cars Derail Spilling Plastic Pellets in Canton Ohio Rail Yard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CANTON, OH &#8212; A train derailment on Thursday, April 25, caused three rail cars to spill a load of plastic pellets at the Wheeling &amp; Lake Erie Railroad Gambrinus Yard in canton, Ohio.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5936\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5936\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5936\" alt=\"Three rail cars belonging to the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad derailed and then tipped over in a rail yard in Canton, OH on April 26, 2013. Photo credit: Cantonrep.com\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/canton-oh-train-derailment.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/canton-oh-train-derailment.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/canton-oh-train-derailment-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5936\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three rail cars belonging to the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad derailed and then tipped over in a rail yard in Canton, OH on April 25, 2013. Photo credit: Cantonrep.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->According to Noel Rush, spokesman for the first-responder R.J. Corman Railroad Group, three \u201choppers\u201d loaded with plastic pellets spilled at the site.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5937\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5937\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5937\" alt=\"Map showing location of a Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad train derailment at the company's Gambrinus rail yard in Canton, OH on April 25, 2013.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/canton-oh-train-derailment-map.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/canton-oh-train-derailment-map.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/canton-oh-train-derailment-map-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map showing location of a Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad train derailment at the company&#8217;s Gambrinus rail yard in Canton, OH on April 25, 2013.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Wheeling &amp; Lake Erie Railway Co., which is based in Brewster, sent clean-up crews from their Toledo and Pittsburgh divisions that arrived at 6 a.m. Friday after the company was notified Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Alec Jarvis, vice president of law and government relations for the company, said that no one was injured in the incident and that the spilled material was not hazardous.<\/p>\n<p>The incident remains under investigation at this time.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Blog post by Gordon &#038;amp Elias, a FELA lawyer and <a title=\"Ohio railroad injury lawyer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/CM\/FELA\/Ohio-FELA-Overview.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"> Ohio railroad injury lawyer<\/a> who publishes train accidents and FELA legal news from across the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CANTON, OH &#8212; A train derailment on Thursday, April 25, caused three rail cars to spill a load of plastic pellets at the Wheeling &amp; Lake Erie Railroad Gambrinus Yard in canton, Ohio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,50],"tags":[72,254,298],"class_list":["post-5932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ohio-railroad-news","category-train-derailments","tag-ohio-fela-lawyer","tag-ohio-railroad-injury-lawyer","tag-wheeling-lake-erie-railroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5932","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=5932"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5939,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5932\/revisions\/5939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}