Norfolk Southern's practice of putting the heavier load at the rear of their freight trains makes accidents more likely but saves the company money, unions claimed. Within the last three years Norfolk Southern has fired all five engineers who inspected the heat sensors in the East Palestine area, sensors which are now a key part of the investigation.
Thirty cars derailed but this time there were no injuries or toxic leak.Ī investigation into Norfolk Southern – whose network runs fromfrom southern Maine to east Texas – has shown that the company has long faced concerns about its corporate culture.īut that is just the tip of the iceberg at a firm which slashed thousands of staff despite earning record profits in 2022 and paying its boss Alan Shaw $4.5million a year. Two days later there was another accident, this time near White Plains, Alabama. Train conductor Louis Shuster, 46, was killed when a dump truck carrying limestone crashed into his train at a crossing, according to Cleveland police.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announced on Tuesday that it was opening the investigation into Atlanta-based Norfolk Southern's 'safety practices and culture' following the February 3 derailment in East Palestine.īut the board is expanding the probe to look at other incidents including another derailment in Springfield, Ohio, where a two-and-a-half mile long train went off the tracks on Saturday, and the death of the employees, the most recent of whom died in Cleveland on Tuesday. 'Their notion wasn't just a company that had no high standards, this was a company that essentially hated their employees.'
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