CSX honors 59 for chemical safety

CSX Transportation Thursday announced the 59 winners of its annual Chemical Safety Excellence Award (CSEA), which recognizes customers’ commitment to the safe transportation of hazardous materials by rail through safe loading and maintenance of rail cars. Recipients of this year’s award represent many different industries, CSX said.

Winners for 2010 include the following CSX customers: Air Liquide Industrial U.S.; Archer Daniels Midland Company; Ascend Performance Materials LLC; ASHTA Chemicals, Inc.; Aux Sable Liquid Products; BASF Corp.; BP Products North America, NGL; Cardinal Ethanol LLC; Cargill, Inc.; Castle Rock Renewable Fuels, LLC; Celanese; Chemtrade Logistics, Inc.; Citgo Petroleum Corp.; Clean Harbors Environmental Services; ConocoPhillips; Cytec Industries; Dominion Transmission, Inc.; The Dow Chemical Company; Dow Corning Corp.; Eka Chemicals, Inc.; Elementis Chromium; EQ Northeast, Inc.; ExxonMobil Chemical; Consumer Co-Op. Refinery Ltd. (Division of Federated Co-Op. Ltd.); Finnchem USA; Green Plains Renewable Energy; Huntsman; Husky Energy Lima Refinery; Imperial Oil Products Ltd.; Ineos Nova LLC; Inter-Chem; International Commodities Export Corp.; INVISTA S.a.r.l.; Iroquois Bio Energy Company LLC; Kinetic Resources (LPG); Koch Sulfur Products; Markwest; Marsulex; MHF Services; The Mosaic Company; Nan Ya Plastics Corp., America; Nucor Corp.; NuStar Energy L. P.; Occidental Chemical Corp.; Platinum Ethanol LLC; Poet; Reagent Chemical and Research; Sabic Americas, Inc.; Shell Chemicals Canada; Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy; Sulphuric Acid Trading Company; Taminco Inc.; Targa Transport LLC; TPC Group, Inc.; Tronox; United Refining Company; Valero Marketing and Supply, Inc.; Western Wisconsin Energy LLC; and Westlake Chemical Corp.

To qualify for the award, each winner shipped 600 or more railcars on CSX safely through 2010 with no releases attributed to loading or unloading processes. Improper loading/unloading or failure to fully secure rail cars during those processes can result in what are referred to as non-accidental releases. Shippers include companies from the chemicals, fertilizer, agriculture and metals merchandise commodity markets as well as from emerging markets.

“At CSX, safety is a way of life, and this year’s CSEA recipients have demonstrated their dedication to the best practices in chemical safety,” said Clarence Gooden, CSX executive vice president and chief commercial officer. “We recognize these companies’ commitments to safety and their important roles in helping CSX to be a leader in one of the nation’s safest industries.”