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EVERETT, Wash. – Emergency responders and clean-up crews responded to a BNSF train and tanker truck collision near Paine Field at Everett, Washington on Monday, June 11, where a tanker truck trailer was knocked on its side, spilling fuel.

Aerial view of railway crossing on Boeing property in Everett, WA that was the site of a collision between a tanker truck and a BNSF train on June 11, 2012.

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FORT WORTH, TX — A man was killed on Monday, June 4, after a westbound Amtrak train hit him as he went down across the tracks. The man was identified as 76-year old Joe Jennings from Fort Worth, Texas.

On June 4, 2012 76 year-old Joe Jennings was killed by an Amtrak train near this intersection of Old Handley Rd and Benton Ave in Fort Worth, TX.

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CORPUS CHRISTI, TX  –  A 47-year old worker at H & H Metals was critically injured this morning and is now battling for his life after being crushed between a rail car and a front loader. The incident occurred at H & H Iron and Metal in the 3700 block of Agnes Street.

Metals yard and derailed rail car in Corpus Christi, TX that pinned a worker to a front loader causing serious, life threatening injury on June 5, 2012. Photo credit: kztv10.com

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ATKINS, AR. — According to Pope County Sheriff, Aaron Duvall, a woman was killed when a Union Pacific train struck her Ford Explorer in Atkins, Arkansas on Monday afternoon, May 28.

South facing view of the Avenue Four rail crossing just south of Main Street (State Highway 64) in Atkins, AR where 26 year-old Nicki Settlemire was killed when her SUV collided with a Union Pacific train.

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UPPER MERION, Pa. — A railroad worker, employed by the Brandywine Valley Railroad Co., was killed on Saturday, May 19, when an 1,800-pound roll of newsprint fell from a boxcar at the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News Schuylkill Printing Plant, crushing the victim to death.

A railroad worker was killed on May 19, 2012 after being crushed by huge roll of paper at the Daily News Printing Plant in Upper Merion, PA.

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SHARON, Mass. – An Amtrak Acela train traveling from Washington D.C. to Boston struck and killed a person on the tracks on Monday, May 14, near Sharon, Mass.

Aerial view of accident site where a 32 year-old pedestrian was killed on May 14, 2012 in Sharon, MA by an AMTRAK passenger train. The train was heading southwest from the route 128 station near Boston, MA towards Mansfield, MA. Photo credit: WCVB.com

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The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET), on behalf of 15 railroad workers, unanimously ratified a new three-year agreement with Great Western Railway of Colorado L.L.C. (GWR).

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Two vehicles and a light rail train were involved in an accident that sent seven people to local hospitals as a result of the accident. Four people were described as having serious injuries while three were described as having suffered non-life threatening injuries, according to the media.

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ST. PAUL, Minn. — BNSF agreed to pay a $29M settlement to the families of four young people who tragically died in a train crash in Anoka on the night of Sept. 26, 2003. One of the victims, 23-year old Brian Frazier of Newport, was driving the car when a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train hit the car at a rail crossing. Frazier and three others were killed.

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DE SOTO, MO — A Union Pacific train derailment occurred on Tuesday, April 24, damaging about 200 feet of track. Union Pacific workers arrived on the scene to survey the damage.

Seven Union Pacific cars derail in De Soto, MO on April 24, 2012 damaging about 200 feet of track.

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