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NS train car leaking lye in Durham PDF Print E-mail
Written by the News & Observer   
Friday, 22 May 2025 09:15
DURHAM, N.C. — A train car derailed this morning and is now leaking sodium hydroxide, commonly known as lye. No injuries have been reported, but at least one home has been evacuated.

The car, operated by Norfolk Southern, is in the train yard located at Angier Avenue and Midway Avenue, according to Kathy Ellis, a Durham emergency dispatch supervisor.

Currently, the Durham fire department, EMS and police are on the scene, Ellis said. A hazardous materials group and Norfolk Southern police are on the way from Greensboro, she said.

Official are evacuating buildings within a 150 yards of the area, Ellis said, adding only one home is across from the yard. The emergency command center has also moved back from the area, she said.

Ellis said she did not know how many other cars had derailed off the track.

Sodium hydroxide is used in the manufacture of other chemicals and to produce rayon, paper, etching aluminum, soaps and detergents.

If inhaled, it can cause serious damage of the upper respiratory tract. It can be fatal if swallowed.
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NS given Harriman award for safety statistics PDF Print E-mail
Written by Robert McCabe - The Virginian-Pilot   
Thursday, 21 May 2025 21:31
NORFOLK, Va. — For the 20th year in a row, Norfolk Southern Corp. took top honors in an annual competition recognizing safety achievements by the nation's railroads.

Among the biggest U.S. railroads, the Norfolk-based company again won the gold medal in the E.H. Harriman Awards with the best safety record in 2008. CSX Transportation took silver, and Union Pacific Railroad the bronze.

"Over the years, our employees have become the leaders of our safety process," Mark Manion, executive vice president and chief operating officer at Norfolk Southern, said in an e-mail. "Their safety achievement reflects our corporate culture. It is instilled in each of us at Norfolk Southern to make safety our number-one priority every day."

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood honored the winners Wednesday at a ceremony in Washington, D.C.

Norfolk Southern competed with the largest line-haul railroads, those whose employees worked 15 million employee hours or more.

Last year, the company reported 298 "cases" - the sum of deaths, injuries and occupational illnesses - occurring during more than 63.4 million employee hours, or hours worked by its employees, according to Federal Railroad Administration data. The company reported one death, 295 injuries and two occupational illnesses, for a total rate of 0.94 per 200,000 employee-hours worked.
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