Norfolk Southern has a history of lobbying against safety regulations. Two years ago the union said that they were understaffed, that "just in time" BS was dangerous. And now an Ohio town is contaminated with toxic gas.
*very sarcastic slow clap*
This isn't getting enough news coverage despite lots of explosions and fire-- so if you don't know what I'm talking about please look it up.
@futurebird Vinyl chloride. If I understand correctly they added more fire to it because the safest way to deal with that chemical is to increase the energy to encourage the nasty compounds it reacts into to continue reacting into less toxic compounds.
... one of those deals where if you find yourself in the cloud, you *hope* to survive long enough to worry about the carcinogenic effects.
@mtomczak @futurebird Think I read that they opened up the cars to dump the vinyl chloride into a ditch in order to burn it off 'safely' as the risk of a catastrophic explosion (debris radius of over a mile!) was too great