Boo hoo... Profits are down! Make them clean up their mess before they go bankrupt!

#NorfolkSouthern Lifts Ohio #Derailment Cost to Over $800 Million

Story by Esther Fung, July 27, 2023

"Norfolk Southern raised its estimate on costs associated with the #EastPalestine, Ohio, train derailment to $803 million, a move that sent its profit sharply lower in the second quarter.

"The updated cost forecast Thursday was more than double the estimate that the Atlanta-based railroad operator provided earlier this year.

"Executives said that the bulk of the costs are from the #environmental clean-up, and added that there may be additional legal costs, fines and penalties in the coming quarters. These are difficult to estimate, they said."

Source:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/norfolk-southern-lifts-ohio-derailment-cost-to-over-800-million/ar-AA1erbZX?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=236f7a64104246acbb1a6b5f4829a24d&ei=7

#ToxicWaste #Safety #TrainSafety #Polluters #Pollution #ChemicalIndustries #Ohio

Modi government’s special fund for railway safety spent on foot massagers, crockery, winter jackets: CAG report

This spending sleight of hand and the sharp rap that the government auditors delivered to the railway czars may never have become public if it weren’t for the triple-train accident last week in Balasore.

#odisha #balasore #OdishaTrainAccident #TrainSafety #IndianRailways #CAG #UnionGovt #BJP #india

https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/modi-governments-special-fund-for-railway-safety-spent-on-foot-massagers-crockery-winter-jackets-cag-report/cid/1943871

Electrocution Likely Behind 40 Deaths In Balasore Train Accident: Railway Police

An FIR registered at the Government Railway Police station at Balasore indicated that live overhead wires which snapped when the accident occurred, entangled with a few coaches, electrocuting the passengers trapped in them.

#odisha #OdishaTrainAccident #balasore #railways #RailwayPolice #TrainSafety #IndianRailways #india

https://www.outlookindia.com/national/electrocution-likely-behind-40-deaths-in-balasore-train-accident-railway-police-news-292658

#deregulation is awesome. As long as you’re cool with trains and banks that implode.
#trainsafety #doddfrank #eattherich

Collisions could be stopped
With auto-braking technology
Delayed and neglected

#trainsafety #greece #technology #haiku #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/02/world/europe/greece-rail-safety.html

Alarm on the train
Overheating bearing sound
Tragedy strikes again

#trainderailment #trainsafety #eastpalestine #haiku #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/us/politics/ohio-train-east-palestine-ntsb-buttigieg.html