Freight train derailment injures 3 in US West Virginia
A view of a derailed CSX Corp freight train in Sandstone, West Virginia, US, March 8, in this still image obtained from social media video.
A CSX freight train derailed Wednesday after it struck a rock slide in the US state of West Virginia, injuring three crew members.
All four of the train's locomotives and nine empty coal cars derailed, CSX Transportation, a freight railroad company, said in a press release.
According to the release, the locomotive caught fire, but all three crew members were safe and treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
"An unknown quantity of diesel fuel and oil spilt from the derailed locomotives," the railroad added. Environmental measures will be deployed though no hazardous materials were transported by the train.
