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Freight company offers $25,000 following derailment that forced evacuation (yahoo.com)
5 points by anigbrowl on Feb 11, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



Isn't $25000 only $5 per resident if there are 500 affected residents?

This is a $55 billion company with $12.75 billion revenue according to the Wall Street Journal.

I think they can pony up a lot more dough than that to help these people whose homes they have poisoned through their cost-cutting.

Perhaps the C-level company men and board members should be given shovels and made to clean up their mess.


It's funny this is exactly what was predicted by the railroad strikers who were striking for sick days. That things would continue to run on tighter and tighter tolerances with larger and larger loads, until accidents like this happen and keep happening.

Also the evacuation was caused because it ended up releasing a ton of phosgene gas.


phosgene gas was used in WWI chemical warfare




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