The Association of American Railroads (AAR), Washington, D.C., is an organization of the major North American railroads. Essentially the AAR is the railroad industry’s trade organization that has ...

Lithium-ion batteries and other possible ignition sources could pose a fire safety issue in the transportation of scrap materials as cargo, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said ...

Federal agency says lithium-ion batteries in scrap pose ignition source danger. This photo, which accompanies an NTSB warning to barge line operators, refers to a ferrous scrap fire that took place in ...

A fire on the east side of Sims Metal in Redwood City on Wednesday began while employees at the recycling facility were loading a shredder with burning pieces of metal, according to Redwood City Fire ...

PUEBLO – Around 4 p.m. Monday afternoon, Pueblo Police responded to a major crash near Santa Fe Hill in Pueblo. A semi-truck loaded with scrap metal tipped over and spilled its cargo all over the road ...

A dump truck from Tennessee Valley Recycling carrying scrap metal to Nucor Corp. overturned on Iverson Boulevard about 10:15 a.m. today.