The Transportation Safety Board has deployed a team of investigators following a Canadian Pacific Railway Company train derailment near Field, BC.
A TSB spokesperson told the Western Standard that no injuries have been reported, and no "dangerous goods" were involved.
According to the TSB, the incident took place at around 6 a.m. MST while the train was proceeding westward. A total of seven automotive flatcars went off the rails.
The investigative team is expected to arrive in the next few hours.
This is not the first time a train has derailed near Field. In 2019, 99 grain cars and two locomotives fell off a bridge, killing CP Rail employees Andrew Dockrell, 56, Dylan Paradis, 33, and Daniel Waldenberger-Bulmer, 26.
An investigation by the TSB found that old equipment and cold temperatures causes the train to go from a standstill at an emergency stop to rolling down a hill uncontrollably. By the time it reached the corner it would go on to plummet off, there was nothing the workers could do.
