U.S News

UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. – A freight condition derailed and sideswiped added Saturday night on the banks of Puget Sound, sending whatever cars carrying a dangerous chemical careening off the rails nearby the water, officials said.

Fourteen cars derailed and most were empty, but four were tankers carrying sodium hydroxide, or lye, BNSF spokesman Gus Melonas said. The chemical is used in business and to set the pH levels of liquid but crapper be dangerous and drive breathing problems and burns.

No digit was injured in the derailment, which occurred most 8:30 p.m. 13 miles southward of metropolis in Pierce County, he said.

Some of the derailed cars were lying nearby the shore of Puget Sound but none went into the water, he said.

One of the cars had leaked 10 to 20 gallons of the chemical and a dangerous materials crew was employed to accolade it.

Melonas said no evacuations had been sequential even though there are whatever homes in the area.

"Not much of the chemical leaked and there were no vapors," he said. "A hazmat team determined that there was no open threat."

The happening occurred as a 109-car BNSF condition was heading northerly from Portland, Ore., passing an Atlantic known as the metropolis Narrows. The condition derailed and whatever of its cars struck a freight condition motion in the contestant direction.

"There was a sideswipe when cars that derailed struck cars on the conterminous track," he said.

Twelve cars on the north condition derailed and digit on the southbound.

The drive of the initial derailment is being investigated.

Meanwhile, the digit nonconvergent BNSF tracks running between metropolis and metropolis are closed and Melonas said it wasn't country when they would be cleared, restored and reopened.

He said 50 trains ingest those tracks regular and whatever would be rerouted.

Source