3 Injured in Fiery Train Derailment Caused by Rockslide

Smoke fills the sky after an empty CSX coal train hit a rockslide along tracks causing a fiery derailment in a remote area just south of Sandstone, W.Va., on March 8, 2023. Jenny Harnish/The Register-Herald via AP

SANDSTONE, W.Va.—An empty coal train hit a rockslide along tracks in West Virginia on Wednesday morning, causing a fiery derailment that injured three crew members, CSX Transportation said in a statement.

Four locomotives and 22 empty cars derailed in Summers County near the New River, CSX said. The lead locomotive, which carried a conductor, an engineer, and an engineer trainee, caught fire and the crew members were being evaluated and treated for non-life threatening injuries, the company said.