(GreatGameIndia) Norfolk Southern has been rocked by a wave of class action lawsuits alleging East Palestine residents may already be undergoing DNA mutations due to the hazardous chemicals and demands for punitive damages and medical monitoring on the grounds that efforts by the rail company and local and state officials to burn off the hazardous chemicals made matters worse.
“We will not walk away, East Palestine,” said a letter that was issued by Norfolk Southern Railway CEO Alan Shaw on Thursday.
Nevertheless, Norfolk Southern officials skipped a meeting with concerned East Palestine, Ohio residents last night after a freight train carrying 150 cars—20 of which were carrying hazardous materials—derailed in the little town, causing a chemical disaster. The citizens were merely looking for answers.
East Palestine Ohio mayor Trent Conaway is furious the community came out for a town hall and the railroad refused to show up Norfolk Southern didn’t have the nerve to address the town. pic.twitter.com/HSysWKt8mj
— 🥀_Imposter_ (@Imposter_Edits) February 16, 2023
The start for Norfolk Southern has not been good. There are more and more complaints that the controlled burning of the carcinogenic chemical vinyl chloride has had short-term health effects on locals. According to local media, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, residents as far afield as Pittsburgh are concerned about potential health effects.
DeWine says they relied on models to determine possible fallout. What could possible go wrong… https://t.co/XTmwnAYw6B
— Jordan Schachtel (@JordanSchachtel) February 15, 2023
And here is a model.
#EastPalestine train derailed Friday Feb 3, 2023 at 8:55PM after which “the fire spanned the length of the rail cars and continued for several days.” Link includes HYSPLIT run from Feb 6, several days after the accident, when the controlled burn began.https://t.co/mwH2ouwDns pic.twitter.com/KVKnqZpj7B
— #WearAMask (@StLawCovid) February 15, 2023
In addition, exposure to vinyl chloride has long-term health effects, including an elevated chance of developing leukemia, lymphoma, brain cancer, lung cancer, and a rare form of liver cancer called hepatic angiosarcoma.
These devices are scattered through East Palestine, Ohio.
📸@realmonsanto & @lincolnmjay https://t.co/bq2xTFq0nVpic.twitter.com/5L7OaKMhws
— Rebel News USA (@RebelNews_USA) February 15, 2023
Below is the entirety of Shaw’s letter to the people of East Palestine.
According to the New York Daily News, Norfolk Southern hasn’t given all the details on what the train carriages were carrying over two weeks after the crash.
East Palestine resident Kathy Dyke posed the following questions to representatives of the government last night at the meeting:
Yet another woman inquired:
One man cried out:
The fumes are making even the reporters reporting the derailment ill.
Watch the video below:
