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East Palestine train derailment site workers are getting sick, union says
Fox News ^ | 3/1/23 | Andrea Vacchiano

Posted on 03/01/2023 6:10:46 PM PST by CFW

A U.S. union official alerted the Biden administration to health problems caused by the Norfolk Southern derailment in February, saying that some workers have become sick.

In a letter obtained by CNBC, union representative Jonathon Long said Wednesday that rail workers have fallen ill at the East Palestine, Ohio, crash site.

"Many other Employees reported that they continue to experience migraines and nausea, days after the derailment, and they all suspect that they were willingly exposed to these chemicals at the direction of NS [Norfolk Southern]," the letter reads.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: derailment; disaster; donatefreerepublic; eastpalestine; illness; norfolk; ohio; toxins
This may change things a bit. If rail workers are getting sick, the union may make a stand that would otherwise not be taken.
1 posted on 03/01/2023 6:10:46 PM PST by CFW
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To: CFW

What a shock.


2 posted on 03/01/2023 6:12:25 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: CFW

Whoops! The MSM may have to report on that!


3 posted on 03/01/2023 6:13:52 PM PST by TChad (Progressives are in favor of removing healthy sex organs from children. Conservatives oppose this.)
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To: nickcarraway

They’re dead. Doesn’t take much dioxin.


4 posted on 03/01/2023 6:14:49 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: CFW

From what I recall, DeWine has until Saturday to declare a state of emergency to get FEMA assistance. I think everyone involved prefers that everyone in East Palestine dies rather than inconvenience Norfolk-Southern.


5 posted on 03/01/2023 6:15:03 PM PST by Shadow44
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To: CFW

The Union? Don’t make me laugh.

You think the union cares about the workers, instead of supporting the Democrap party?


6 posted on 03/01/2023 6:15:23 PM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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To: CFW

For white, rural, working poor there is no union. MAGA was as close as we got.


7 posted on 03/01/2023 6:15:25 PM PST by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: hardspunned

Can’t blame China on this one.


8 posted on 03/01/2023 6:38:39 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: CFW

And the bassturds are bringing that crap to Texas. Abbott needs to make them a deal. We’ll take a box car full of the toxic waste for each box car of illegal aliens they take from us.


9 posted on 03/01/2023 6:46:46 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer ("I may be a white boy but I'm not stupid". - FJB at Black "History" event. Tell 'em Jo Jo!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

https://thelibertydaily.com/another-disaster-in-northeast-ohio-as-several-explosion-hit-cleveland-warehouse-50-firefighters-respond/

ANOTHER Disaster in Northeast Ohio as Several Explosions Hit Cleveland Warehouse — 50 Firefighters Respond


10 posted on 03/01/2023 6:54:41 PM PST by CFW (old and retired)
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To: CFW
Improper usage or lack of PPE.

Should have been a HM Safety Man in charge of the clean up workers.

OSHA should be interested in such reporting of illness.

11 posted on 03/01/2023 7:40:54 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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saw a report where hundreds of animals are dying in the area too-

“Several labs across the country have received specimens of whole minks, deer, elk, worms and livers of such animals, and they are finding toxicities that are off the charts, the source said.

“These highly toxic levels are the exact chemicals that were released from East Palestine. Wayne National Forest and Shawnee State Forest in Ohio, are downriver from East Palestine and are two parks where samples are from,” the source continued.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/animals-dying-across-ohio-state-parks-after-east-palestine-train-derailment


12 posted on 03/01/2023 8:48:18 PM PST by Bob434
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“saw a report where hundreds of animals are dying in the area too”

I saw that as well. I couldn’t post the article here because FR doesn’t allow articles sourced from Zerohedge. Which is a shame because they have a lot of good financial articles with links to charts and graphs that are really good at explaining the lies we are being told. I forgot that I could embed it in a comment of an existing thread.


13 posted on 03/01/2023 9:29:29 PM PST by CFW (old and retired)
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To: CFW

Poison and private police: Norfolk Southern destroys East Palestine

Reporter Jeremy Loffredo reports for The Grayzone from East Palestine, Ohio, where Norfolk Southern’s detonation of a train filled with vinyl chloride has poisoned the town’s waterways and left residents wondering if they have to permanently relocate. While there, Loffredo learns of private police and environmental consultants paid by Norfolk Southern to enforce the corporation’s narrative of a successful clean-up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWy7y3pxSwk

20 minutes


14 posted on 03/02/2023 2:41:55 AM PST by Pollard ( >>> The Great Reset is already underway! <<<)
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To: CFW

Ah, I didn’t realize that. If I see another from their ill check around and see if it is posted on some other site too


15 posted on 03/02/2023 6:41:30 AM PST by Bob434
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