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In february of this year a man named randy fitswater and his wife were at home in west virginia just outside charleston when they looked out their window and they saw this. he said the noise was so loud and the explosion was so big he was sure a full size jet line her crashed into the ground across the river from their house. he learned whether they got through to 911 that it had actually been a train derailment, an oil train derailment. a train with 107 tanker cars carrying crude oil had been flung off the tracks, 27 cars rerailed, 15 ruptured. only one person was injured in that huge explosi...

We now know that this gigantic oil train explosion was caused by a defect on the tracks. specifically a broken rail that had been detected twice by a contractor hired by the rail company but even though it was detected twice it was never fixed. and then it caused this terrible accident in this terrible xbloegs. we know this thanks to an investigation by the federal railroad administration. joining us now is sarah fineberg, the acting administrator. great to you have here. thanks for being here. >> thank you for having me. good to see you. >> let me ask you first about the fine in this case. is...

Are progress and good things. but here's the amazing part of the story. for having not fixed this flawed rail, for having detected that flaw twice and ignored it for having caused through negligence a giant fireball and evacuation of 1,000 people, for all that, under the old rules they were operating, csx and the contractor were both fined in this case. a grand total of $25,000. $25,000 which at least csx will presumably find in a couch cushion at company headquarters. it has been a really heartening development that federal government is getting tougher with companies that operate the bomb tr...

This was one accident and one investigation but we'll justin to do more as we go along. >> is what's happening overall here, this is not first conversation we've had about oil train safety and not first time we've covered it. and it's a concern to so many communities aren't country whether or not they're anywhere near oiled fields because so many towns have oil trains rumbling through, past schools and main streets. >> right. >> is what's happening here that we're getting a slight reorientation in terms of who is responsible for safety, it fields like the companies that make money off shipping...

A string of oil train apocalyptic crashes led the federal government to crackdown on things like oil train speed and beefed up standards for the tanker cars transporting the oil. but this crash in west virginia turns out this was not about speed or the rail cars. turns out this one was caused by something more galling. the federal railroad administration released the findings of their investigation into that mt. carbon, west virginia derailment. and what they found was that what happened there was caused by the railroad tracks. it wasn't some mysterious problem. it wasn't some unforeseeable fr...