No hazardous materials were involved, officials say, but the latest incident involving the railroad shows a trend that one senator calls ‘troubling.'
The hearing sought to answer questions about the response and aftermath of a Feb. 3 derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. A 149-car train carrying vinyl chloride went off the rails, prompting evacuations and a public health scare.
“I certainly hope that all of your team and anybody in the vicinity is safe and well,” Whitehouse told Shaw. “You may need to look into that.” “There’s no hazard material leak. There’s no risk at all to the public,” said Spielmaker, who tried to reassure local residents the company is looking at all recent incidents “and figuring out how we can become an even safer railroad.”, including a revamp of its network of hot-bearing detectors. The company said it would install 200 more hotbox detectors along its rail lines to fill gaps in a network of safety devices designed to catch overheating wheel bearings before they cause a derailment.
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