BNSF Railway Safety

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BNSF Railway Safety
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BNSF Fast Facts

• Employees 36,500
• Route Miles 32,500
• States 28
• Canadian Provinces 2
• Daily Trains 800
• Corp. Offices Fort Worth, TX

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Safety ResultsBNSF Hazardous Materials Transport
Hazardous material shipments have increased on
BNSF, while the number of releases has decreased.
Number of Shipments
Total Releases
Examples of Types of Releases
Accident Release
Non-Accident Release
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BNSF Hazardous Materials Transport
Loaded Hazmat Cars
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Hazardous Materials
For US Railroads Hazardous Materials Account for

• 5 of total U.S. freight rail carloads
• 5 of tonnage
• 6 of ton-miles
• 68 of rail hazmat travels in tank cars
• 28 on intermodal flat cars, and the remainder in
  covered hoppers, gondolas, and other car types
• The most potentially hazardous materials, termed
  toxic inhalation hazards (TIH) are nearly all
  transported in tank cars. TIH materials
  constitutes only about 0.3 of all rail
  carloads.

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Hazardous Materials Transport
As common carriers, railroads are required under
federal law to move hazardous materials
Serious Incidents Rail and Truck (1989-2006)

• Virtually all are shipped without an accident
  release (99.998)
• Hazmat accident rates have declined by 90 since
  1980 and nearly 50 since 1990
• Moving hazardous materials by rail is 16 times
  safer than moving them on the roads
• Railroads incurred 16 fatalities in since 1989
  while trucks average nearly 11 annually. BNSF
  had none.

Hazardous Materials Fatalities in Rail Incidents
(1989-2006)
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Incident Notification
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First Call
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BNSF Emergency Response Team
BNSF hazardous material responders protect the
safety of our employees, our communities and
BNSFs velocity.

• Currently 205 responders at 56 BNSF locations
• 126 Mechanical
• 29 Environmental / Hazmat
• 22 Load and Ride Solutions
• 9 Operating
• 3 Safety
• 1 Engineering
• 1 Intermodal
• All but one are exempt employees
• Provide direct response until BNSF Environmental
  / Hazmat and hazmat contractors arrive

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Vancouver
January 2009
Seattle
Whitefish
Portland
Minot
Fargo
Superior
Mandan
Billings
Hettinger
Minneapolis/ St. Paul
Gillette
Klamath Falls
La Crosse
Bridger Jct
Alliance
Sioux City
Chicago
Ravenna
Galesburg
Salt Lake City
Lincoln
McCook
Stockton
Denver
Superior
Machens
St. Louis
Kansas City
La Junta
Springfield
Arkansas City
Bakersfield
Avard
Mojave
Needles
Texline
Los Angeles
Tulsa
San Bernardino
Oklahoma City
Norris
Memphis
Belen
Amarillo
Texico
Phoenix
Birmingham
Haslet
Ft. Worth
Sweetwater
El Paso
Teague
Temple
Spring
New Orleans
Houston
BNSF HAZMAT Responder Locations
202 Responders at 59 Locations
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Training and Response BNSF Emergency Response
Team
BNSF hazardous material responders go through
intensive initial and refresher training

• Initial training
• 80 Hour Hazmat Technician
• Emergency Response Training Center Pueblo, CO
• Annual refresher (32-40 hrs.)
• Tank car
• Advanced tank car
• Incident command
• Air monitoring
• Advanced technology
• BNSF Hazmat Task Force

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Contracted Response - Expectations

• Experience
• Locations
• Limitations
• Ability
• Duties
• Equipment
• Regulatory Compliance
• Training
• Respiratory
• Med. Surveillance
• Contract Compliance
• Audit
• Drills
• Experience

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ICS and NIMS
BNSF hazardous material responders, operations
supervisors and traincrews will work within the
Unified Incident Command
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Hazard Communications
Emergency Responders can obtain hazardous
materials information during emergencies.
Contacting the Network Operations
Center 800-832-5452
Traincrews Trainlist
Tank cars Placard, Marking and Stencils
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Training and Response Community
Community focus is on training of responders and
providing required information for emergency
preplanning.

• Information
• Hazmat traffic flows for communities
• Last 12 mo. shipments
• Written request required
• Kootenai County
• 65,738 Loaded Hazmat Shipments
• 30,981 Intermodal Hazmat Freight of All Kinds
• 12154 Denatured Alcohol
• 4,642 Asphalt
• 4098 Liquefied Petroleum Gas
• 2,174 Diesel Fuel
• Top 5 82 of the total
• Others
• 632 Chlorine
• 653 Anhydrous Ammonia

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Training and Response - Community
Community focus is on training responders and
providing interpretative information. Training
is available via instructor lead or computer
based training.
Number of Responders Trained

• Training topics include
• Train list / shipping papers
• Placards
• Equipment
• Incident Assessment
• Hands-on equipment in field Instructor lead
• Hazmat shipment information
• Hazmat traffic flows for communities
• Shipments for past year
• Written request required

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Roles
Fire Department is focused on the protection of
the public and the railroad is focused on the
safe and efficient mitigation of the incident

• Fire Department
• Incident Command
• Assessment
• Air Monitoring
• Evacuation/Shelter in place
• Fire Protection
• Railroad
• Incident Command
• Assessment
• Air Monitoring/modeling
• Mitigation
• Plug and Patch
• Transfer
• Environmental Remediation