East Palestine disaster: lawsuits start while there is already talk of DNA mutations
We are six complaints against the authorities and the railway company for the chemical environmental disaster that occurred in East Palestine, where a derailed train loaded with dangerous chemicals was burned in a controlled way. The latest class action filed following the Norfolk Southern derailment, subsequent fire and chemical spill contains perhaps the heaviest charges out of the five lawsuits filed previously, alleging that clean-up efforts made the situation worse.
The complaint, filed Wednesday in US District Court by Morgan & Morgan, which bills itself as America's largest accident firm, alleges that the railroad dumped more than 1.1 million pounds (500 tons) into the environment. ) of vinyl chloride during the accident.
The lawsuit alleges that the amount of emissions of this toxic chemical was more than twice the total amount of vinyl chloride released annually by all U.S. industries. The lawsuit alleges that burning vinyl chloride creates phosgene gas, a chemical warfare agent used in World War I and prohibited by the Geneva Convention.
"I'm not sure Norfolk Southern could have come up with a worse plan to deal with this disaster," said attorney John Morgan. Residents exposed to vinyl chloride may already be undergoing DNA mutations that could go on for years or even decades before manifesting themselves as terrible and deadly cancers.” The lawsuit alleges Norfolk Southern made the situation worse, essentially bombing the city with chemicals while focusing on restoring train service and protecting shareholders."
In the meantime, however, burned vinyl chloride poses short and long-term risks, including the increase in the frequency of liver tumours, some of which are particularly aggressive, of the brain and lungs, in addition to the aforementioned genetic mutations. The wagons burned for several days, so the toxic chemicals were dispersed over a very large area.
#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
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