CSX rock train derails in South Carolina

CSX rock train derails in South Carolina

By Trains Staff | December 6, 2024

| Last updated on August 6, 2025


No injuries reported; cleanup continues

Derailed hopper cars at night
No injuries were reported when 14 loaded rock hoppers from a CSX train derailed Dec. 4, 2024, near Garnett, S.C. Hampton County Sheriff’s Office

GARNETT, S.C. — Cleanup continues after 14 cars of a CSX Transportation train derailed Wednesday night, Dec. 4, in Garnett, the newspaper Bluffton Today reports.

The railroad said in a statement that loaded rock hopper cars were involved, and that no injuries reported and there was no threat to the environment or surrounding community. U.S. Route 321, which parallels the railroad, was closed Wednesday night but reopened on Thursday, the Hampton County Sheriff’s Office reported in a Facebook post.

Garnett is on CSX’s Columbia Subdivision, about 40 miles north of Savannah, Ga.

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