Amid intense public scrutiny surrounding the Ohio train derailment, the CEO of Norfolk Southern will likely face pointed questioning about the company’s safety practices from a Senate panel today.
The National Transportation Safety Board cited those crashes, the East Palestine derailment and two other Norfolk Southern fatal incidents over the last 15 months, as it"Given the number and significance of recent Norfolk Southern accidents ... the NTSB is concerned that several organizational factors may be involved in the accidents, including safety culture," the Board says in its press release.
"After a series of derailments and the death of one of its workers," Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a statement,"we are initiating this further supplemental safety review of Norfolk Southern, while also calling on Norfolk Southern to act urgently to improve its focus on safety so the company can begin earning back the trust of the public and its employees.
The Association of American Railroads, the main lobbying group for the seven major large, class one freight railroads, announced Wednesdaythat the industry will be taking to improve safety in the wake of the East Palestine disaster and other derailments.
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