Daily Shmutz US 3/3/23

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Railroad union: Workers getting sick at site of Norfolk Southern’s catastrophic hazmat spill in East Palestine   JOSEPH MACKINNON

MARCH 02, 2023The head of a major railroad union confronted Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Wednesday with allegations that some Norfolk Southern railroad workers have taken ill at the site of the railway’s catastrophic toxic spill in East Palestine, Ohio.

Jonathon Long, the general chairman of the American Rail System Federation, accused Norfolk Southern of putting workers’ health at risk at least in part due to its “cost-cutting business model.”

He suggested further that the company “and other railroads alike must be held accountable in their operations, through rule-making and regulatory reform that establishes minimum safety standards in their operations.”

 

Rail Workers Who Cleaned Toxic Norfolk Southern Derailment Site Are Getting Sick – After Government Officials Said Everything is Fine   By Mike Lachance

Mar. 2, 2023 7:00 pm – After the train crash and ‘controlled burn’ in East Palestine, Ohio, local and federal officials rushed to say that everything was fine.

All of the people who live there knew that it wasn’t fine. People immediately complained that the air and water seemed like it has been poisoned.

Now the rail workers at the site are already getting sick. Is anyone surprised?

 

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