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Violation Tracker Summary for Primary Offense Type

Offense Type: 
railroad safety violation
Penalty Total since 2000: 
$155,941,268
Number of Penalty Records: 
15,117
Note: 
The totals here are adjusted to account for the fact that each parent's entries may include both agency records and settlement announcements for the same case; or else a penalty covering multiple locations may be listed in the individual records for each of the facilities. They are also adjusted to reflect cases in which federal and state or local agencies cooperated and issued separate announcements of the outcome. Duplicate or overlapping penalty amounts are marked with an asterisk in the individual records list below.

Top 10 Parent CompaniesTotal Penalty $Number of Records
Union Pacific$39,751,7783,238
Berkshire Hathaway$22,762,5222,189
CSX$17,976,3691,529
Norfolk Southern$13,168,9751,345
Canadian National Railway$6,416,565578
Kansas City Southern$3,015,963273
Brookfield Asset Management$2,695,405318
Canadian Pacific Railway$2,227,225223
Watco Companies$1,616,990180
Linde$770,44037


Individual Penalty Records:

Click on the company or penalty amount for more information on each case. Click on the parent name to reach the summary page for that parent company.
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Company Parent Parent Major Industry Year Agency Penalty Amountsort icon
Canadian National Railway Company Canadian National Railway railroads 2004 FRA $23,450
Canadian National Railway Company Canadian National Railway railroads 2005 FRA $23,450
NEW JERSEY TRANSIT RAIL OPERATIONS   2017 FRA $23,450
Union Pacific Railroad Union Pacific railroads 2011 FRA $23,400
BNSF Railway Company Berkshire Hathaway diversified 2005 FRA $23,375
BNSF Railway Company Berkshire Hathaway diversified 2011 FRA $23,250
BNSF Railway Company Berkshire Hathaway diversified 2008 FRA $23,250
Norfolk Southern Railway Company Norfolk Southern railroads 2003 FRA $23,250
Union Pacific Railroad Company Union Pacific railroads 2001 FRA $23,250
Union Pacific Railroad Company Union Pacific railroads 2007 FRA $23,250
CSX Transportation Inc. CSX railroads 2008 FRA $23,200
New Jersey Transit Rail Operations   2000 FRA $23,200
Union Pacific Railroad Company Union Pacific railroads 2002 FRA $23,200
CSX Transportation Inc. CSX railroads 2012 FRA $23,175
Union Pacific Railroad Company Union Pacific railroads 2015 FRA $23,143
Union Pacific Railroad Company Union Pacific railroads 2004 FRA $23,125
Norfolk Southern Railway Company Norfolk Southern railroads 2008 FRA $23,110
BNSF Railway Company Berkshire Hathaway diversified 2003 FRA $23,100
Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad Inc. Brookfield Asset Management diversified 2001 FRA $23,100
Canadian Pacific Railway Canadian Pacific Railway railroads 2005 FRA $23,100
Union Pacific Railroad Company Union Pacific railroads 2008 FRA $23,100
Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company   2017 FRA $23,100
BNSF Railway Company Berkshire Hathaway diversified 2012 FRA $23,000
Kiamichi Railroad Company Brookfield Asset Management diversified 2012 FRA $23,000
Union Pacific Railroad Union Pacific railroads 2011 FRA $23,000
Union Pacific Railroad Union Pacific railroads 2012 FRA $23,000
Union Pacific Railroad Union Pacific railroads 2012 FRA $23,000
IRVING OIL COMPANY Irving Oil oil and gas 2011 FRA $23,000
PLAINS LPG SERVICES, L.P. Plains GP Holdings pipelines 2015 FRA $23,000
The Kansas City Southern Railway Company Kansas City Southern railroads 2009 FRA $23,000
BNSF Railway Company Berkshire Hathaway diversified 2008 FRA $23,000
CSX Transportation Inc. CSX railroads 2000 FRA $23,000
CSX Transportation Inc. CSX railroads 2001 FRA $23,000
Norfolk Southern Railway Company Norfolk Southern railroads 2002 FRA $23,000
Union Pacific Railroad Company Union Pacific railroads 2006 FRA $23,000
Union Pacific Railroad Company Union Pacific railroads 2004 FRA $23,000
MeadWestvaco Corp. WestRock paper and packaging 2007 FRA $23,000
LaCrosse Solutions   2018 FRA $23,000
Union Pacific Railroad Company Union Pacific railroads 2009 FRA $22,950
Norfolk Southern Railway Company Norfolk Southern railroads 2005 FRA $22,950
SUNCOR ENERGY (USA), INC. Suncor Energy oil and gas 2013 FRA $22,900
BNSF Railway Company Berkshire Hathaway diversified 2002 FRA $22,900
Kansas City Southern Railway Company Kansas City Southern railroads 2002 FRA $22,900
CSX Transportation Inc. CSX railroads 2006 FRA $22,850
Union Pacific Railroad Company Union Pacific railroads 2008 FRA $22,850
Van Hook Crude Terminal Plains GP Holdings pipelines 2017 FRA $22,800
Puget Sound and Pacific Railroad Brookfield Asset Management diversified 2013 FRA $22,780
BNSF Railway Company Berkshire Hathaway diversified 2004 FRA $22,758
Union Pacific Railroad Company Union Pacific railroads 2004 FRA $22,755
BNSF Railway Company Berkshire Hathaway diversified 2010 FRA $22,750
BNSF Railway Company Berkshire Hathaway diversified 2014 FRA $22,750
New Jersey Transit Rail Operations   2013 FRA $22,750
South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad Watco Companies railroads 2010 FRA $22,750
Union Pacific Railroad Company Union Pacific railroads 2001 FRA $22,750
Union Pacific Railroad Company Union Pacific railroads 2005 FRA $22,750
Union Pacific Railroad Company Union Pacific railroads 2007 FRA $22,750
Union Pacific Railroad Company Union Pacific railroads 2003 FRA $22,750
Kansas City Southern Railway Company Kansas City Southern railroads 2002 FRA $22,700
Kansas City Southern Railway Company Kansas City Southern railroads 2002 FRA $22,700
Union Pacific Railroad Company Union Pacific railroads 2004 FRA $22,700
Union Pacific Railroad Company Union Pacific railroads 2003 FRA $22,600
Canadian National Railway Canadian National Railway railroads 2010 FRA $22,550
Union Pacific Railroad Company Union Pacific railroads 2017 FRA $22,550
Union Pacific Railroad Company Union Pacific railroads 2017 FRA $22,550
BNSF Railway Company Berkshire Hathaway diversified 2010 FRA $22,500
BNSF Railway Company Berkshire Hathaway diversified 2011 FRA $22,500
BNSF Railway Company Berkshire Hathaway diversified 2013 FRA $22,500
Maine Central Railroad Pan Am Railways railroads 2014 FRA $22,500
Texas and New Mexico Railroad Watco Companies railroads 2011 FRA $22,500
Canexus Corporation   2014 FRA $22,500
NORTH DAKOTA PORT SERVICES, INC.   2012 FRA $22,500
OxyVinyls, LP Occidental Petroleum oil and gas 2015 FRA $22,500
Waste Solutions Group, Inc.   2015 FRA $22,500
LOUISVILLE & INDIANA RAILROAD COMPANY   2016 FRA $22,500
BNSF Railway Company Berkshire Hathaway diversified 2004 FRA $22,500
Canadian National Railway Company Canadian National Railway railroads 2008 FRA $22,500
CSX Transportation Inc. CSX railroads 2002 FRA $22,500
CSX Transportation Inc. CSX railroads 2002 FRA $22,500
Florida East Coast Railway   2004 FRA $22,500
Norfolk Southern Railway Company Norfolk Southern railroads 2005 FRA $22,500
Union Pacific Railroad Company Union Pacific railroads 2003 FRA $22,500
Union Pacific Railroad Company Union Pacific railroads 2004 FRA $22,500
Union Pacific Railroad Company Union Pacific railroads 2006 FRA $22,500
Bayer MaterialScience LLC Bayer chemicals 2003 FRA $22,500
Noveon Inc. Berkshire Hathaway diversified 2003 FRA $22,500
ConocoPhillips ConocoPhillips oil and gas 2005 FRA $22,500
UNITED PARCEL SERVICE, INC. United Parcel Service freight and logistics 2017 FRA $22,500
Union Pacific Railroad Company Union Pacific railroads 2018 FRA $22,500
Norfolk Southern Railway Company Norfolk Southern railroads 2004 FRA $22,450
Union Pacific Railroad Company Union Pacific railroads 2008 FRA $22,400
NEW JERSEY TRANSIT RAIL OPERATIONS   2017 FRA $22,400
TRONOX INCORPORATED Tronox chemicals 2011 FRA $22,384
Union Pacific Railroad Company Union Pacific railroads 2005 FRA $22,375
Union Pacific Railroad Union Pacific railroads 2011 FRA $22,350
Canadian National Railway Company Canadian National Railway railroads 2009 FRA $22,350
Union Pacific Railroad Company Union Pacific railroads 2005 FRA $22,265
Southwestern Railroad, Inc.   2017 FRA $22,200
CSX TRANSPORTATION, INC. CSX railroads 2018 FRA $22,178
Union Pacific Railroad Company Union Pacific railroads 2017 FRA $22,140
Grand Trunk Western Railroad   2001 FRA $22,125
Union Pacific Railroad Union Pacific railroads 2013 FRA $22,100
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(*): Some penalties are partial or complete duplicates of other penalty records, either because a DOJ settlement duplicates an agency record or because EPA listed the full penalty for a company for each of the company's relevant facilities. Penalty amounts marked with an asterisk have been identified by Good Jobs First as duplicating other penalty amounts.