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SANFORD, FL – A railroad worker was killed on October 24, when a rail car filled with tons of gravel tipped over in a train derailment at a construction site for a new commuter rail station in Sanford, FL. Sanford is located in Seminole County, Florida in the eastern part of the state about 25 miles northeast of Orlando.

A railroad worker was killed when he was crushed by a rail car filled with tons of gravel in train accident and derailment in Sanford, FL on October 24, 2013.

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PORT OF TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay firefighters used foam to clean up ethanol that leaked from three rail cars after an 81-car CSX train derailed at Florida’s Port of Tampa. Hazmat-trained firefighters have laid a coating of foam on top of the spill to keep it from catching fire. Equipment is being transported from Atlanta to upright the toppled railroad cars.

Photo shows Tampa firefighters working on a derailed CSX train in Tampa, Florida. The rescue team used foam to clean up ethanol that leaked from a CSX train that derailed at the Port of Tampa. According to Tampa Fire Rescue officials, 15 rail cars derailed early Thursday on July 25, 2013. Photo: Tampa Bay Police

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BARTOW, FL – A fiery crash near Bartow, Florida claimed the life of a truck driver when the fuel tanker truck he was driving collided with a CSX freight train.

Billowing smoke from fiery tanker crash with CSX train near Bartow, FL could be seen for miles.

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A railroad worker who fell from a Jacksonville train trestle below the Acosta Bridge Tuesday, Feb.14, was identified as Peter Jerome Michnick a 42-year-old boom truck operator from Michigan, authorities said.

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