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

gateway pundit ^ | 3/2/2023 | mike lachance

[bitt]

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?

NBC News reports:

Rail unions tell Biden officials workers have fallen ill at Norfolk Southern derailment site

The presidents of U.S. railroad unions told Biden administration officials that rail workers have fallen ill at the Norfolk Southern derailment site in East Palestine, Ohio, in a push for more train safety.

Leaders from 12 unions met with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Amit Bose, administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration, in Washington, D.C., Wednesday to discuss the derailment, aftermath and needed safety improvements…

According to the letter, Norfolk Southern rail workers who have worked or continue to work the cleanup site have reported experiencing “migraines and nausea.” One worker reportedly asked his supervisor to be transferred off the derailment site because of his symptoms, but never heard back from his supervisor and was left at the job site…

The letter also claims workers are not being provided appropriate personal protective equipment such as respirators, eye protection or protective clothing. According to union representatives, 35 to 40 workers were on the track and were not supplied with proper breathing apparatuses — only paper and N95 masks — or rubber gloves, boots or coverups.

The Biden administration is a train wreck itself. How can they be trusted to deal with this?

[bitt]

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[NWFree]

You mean the government lied? Again? As usual?

My surprised face 😏

[lightman]

Just like Ground Zero of 9-11-01.

It will take decades to know the full toll.

[Kickaha]

Or is it union workers smelling an early disability pension?
I do have a family member that lost an arm below the elbow in a Burlington Northern coupling mishap.
Lots of Poke Salad Annie daddies from the railroads collecting disability, cops and firemen too.

[Mr. N. Wolfe]

FWIW

East Palestine, Ohio. 6th Congressional District

Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH)

Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH)

Representative Bill Johnson (R-OH)

[ocrp1982]

The same Gov’t that said, Trust Us. Get Vaxxed again and again and again? The same gov’t that told us Natural Immunity is BS? The same Gov’t that denies the many thousands of deaths by the young post-Vax Mandate? That Gov’t? Okay then.

[Do_Tar]

[ssfromla]

Or is it union workers smelling an early disability pension?

How many men do you know? Because almost every single man that I know (including my four sons) love to work.

My husband got cancer and had to retire and you cannot believe how much he misses it and his friends. He creates gorgeous wood work now and is ok with it.

Men love to get things accomplished. They have built this nation and they keep it going most of the time into their 70s.

My father retired and went to another job for 10 more years driving 2 hours one way every single 12 hour shift he had to make which was shift work too if you know what that is.

[joma89]

democrats in government lie...about everything.

[Hostage]

American Chernobyl.

Cleaning crews should be wearing spacesuits.

[Vision]

You mean a silly reprobate man child, only in his position because he’s homosexual, is screwing this up? Unbelievable!