{"id":6480,"date":"2013-09-10T12:27:07","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T19:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/?p=6480"},"modified":"2013-09-10T12:27:07","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T19:27:07","slug":"bnsf-train-derailment-leaks-hazardous-material-in-longview-tx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/6480\/bnsf-train-derailment-leaks-hazardous-material-in-longview-tx\/","title":{"rendered":"BNSF Train Derailment Leaks Hazardous Material in Longview TX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW, TX &#8211; Two rail tankers, containing hazardous material, jumped the tracks and overturned, causing a spill after a BNSF train derailed in Longview, TX. The city of Longview is located in Gregg County, (and partly in Harrison County) in the eastern part of the state.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6489\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6489\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6489 \" title=\"longview-tx-bnsf-tanker-derailment-map\" alt=\"Map shows location of BNSF tanker car derailment near Gum Springs Rd between E Cotton St and S Eastman Rd on September 8, 2013.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/longview-tx-bnsf-tanker-derailment-map.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/longview-tx-bnsf-tanker-derailment-map.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/longview-tx-bnsf-tanker-derailment-map-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6489\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map shows location of BNSF tanker car derailment near Gum Springs Rd between E Cotton St and S Eastman Rd in Longview, Texas on September 8, 2013.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->The derailment occurred in a BNSF rail yard in Gregg County, Longview, TX at around 12:30 p.m. just after noon on September 8, 2013 while switching tracks. The incident caused a partial road closure on Gum Springs Rd South of East Cotton St and west of S Eastman Rd near the rail yard.<\/p>\n<p>A HazMat crew from the Longview Fire Department was dispatched to the scene to clean up the leak. There were no railroad worker injuries reported at the time of the accident.<\/p>\n<p>The material that spilled contained molten resin like tar used in road surfacing.<\/p>\n<p>The train was on its way to Memphis, TN from Dayton, TX.<\/p>\n<p>The incident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Blog post by Gordon &#038;amp Elias, a FELA lawyer and <a title=\"Texas railroad injury lawyer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/CM\/FELA\/Texas-FELA-Overview.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"> Texas railroad injury lawyer<\/a> who publishes train accidents and FELA legal news from across the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW, TX &#8211; Two rail tankers, containing hazardous material, jumped the tracks and overturned, causing a spill after a BNSF train derailed in Longview, TX. The city of Longview is located in Gregg County, (and partly in Harrison County) in the eastern part of the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1255,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,5,74,50],"tags":[59,240],"class_list":["post-6480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bnsf-railroad","category-fela-law","category-texas-railroad-news","category-train-derailments","tag-texas-fela-lawyer","tag-texas-railroad-injury-lawyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6480","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\/1255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6480"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6493,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6480\/revisions\/6493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}