Rail operator Norfolk Southern executives reported a rise in accident rates in recent years just weeks before a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio forced the company to vent and burn carcinogenic chemicals, according to the New York Times.
The rate of accidents on the company's railway increased in each of the last four years, according to a Norfolk SouthernCEO Alan Shaw told shareholders that Norfolk Southern's service was “at the best it’s been in more than two years," the Times reports.
Just days later, a 150-car freight train, which was pulling at least five tanker cars containing vinyl chloride, a colorless but hazardous and carcinogenic gas, derailed in Ohio.The crash forced hundreds of East Palestine residents to evacuate before the release and burn-off of the vinyl chloride.
At the same time, railway companies have lobbied against new rules aimed at making trains safer, per the Times.
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