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Another Norfolk Southern train derailed as its CEO, Alan Shaw, testified to Congress on Thursday about the toxic train crash in Ohio last month.
The company said in a statement that some 30 cars on a Norfolk Southern train derailed in Alabama as it was heading from Atlanta, Georgia, to Mississippi. The cars that derailed were empty, and no injuries were reported, it said.
“Norfolk Southern is responding to a derailment in Piedmont, Alabama,” the train operator said in a statement to news outlets on Thursday. “There are no reports of injuries and no reports of a hazardous materials release. We are working in close coordination with local officials.”
A local official, Calhoun County Sheriff Matthew Wade, also confirmed there no injuries or property damage associated with the derailment. No hazardous material was on board this train, he told local outlets, unlike the train that derailed on Feb. 3 in East Palestine, Ohio.
Another incident on Feb. 16 involved the derailment of a Norfolk Southern train in the Van Buren township outside of Detroit.
A third Norfolk Southern train derailed in Springfield, Ohio, on Saturday, and authorities have launched an investigation.
The latest derailment took place at about 6:45 a.m. ET on Thursday, about 70 miles to the northeast of Birmingham in Calhoun County, county officials said. Norfolk Southern will remain at the derailment site until cleanup is completed, officials said.
