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Human error blamed for BNSF derailment

April 11, 2016 By WRN Contributor

A train operator hit the brakes too fast, causing last November’s derailment in which 20,000 gallons of ethanol spilled into the Mississippi River.

The Burlington Northern-Santa Fe railroad investigated the mishap from last November near Alma. BNSF recently submitted its findings to the federal government.

The report says that the 112-car southbound train was traveling at 26-miles per hour when it jumped the tracks, and five cars leaked ethanol into the Mississippi. No one was hurt, and BNSF says there was $2.1 million in damage to its tracks and equipment.

The derailment was one of two in Wisconsin on the same weekend, as 500 gallons of crude oil were spilled in a mishap at Watertown. The spill into the river spurred numerous calls by politicians to pass tougher regulations on trains carrying North Dakota crude and other chemicals.

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