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Deployment notice

TSB deploys an investigator to a train derailment near Fort Frances, Ontario

Winnipeg, Manitoba, 19 February 2020 - The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is deploying an investigator to the site of a derailment at Emo, near Fort Frances, Ontario, of a Canadian National Railway freight train carrying crude oil. The TSB will gather information and assess the occurrence.


The TSB is an independent agency that investigates air, marine, pipeline, and rail transportation occurrences. Its sole aim is the advancement of transportation safety. It is not the function of the Board to assign fault or determine civil or criminal liability.

For more information, contact:
Transportation Safety Board of Canada
Media Relations
Telephone: 819-360-4376
Email: media@tsb.gc.ca