Hours before CEO Alan Shaw was scheduled to testify before Congress about his company’s string of disasters that including burning vinyl chloride after a train derailment and an engineer being killed in a freight yard, another Norfolk Southern train derail, this time in Alabama, NBC News reports.
More than two dozen cars went off the rails in White Plains, Alabama around 6:45 a.m. local time, with no reported injuries and no suspected hazardous material leak. In the United States annually, more than 1,000 derailments are reported by railways. Shaw testified before a Senate committee that an investigation into the East Palestine, Ohio disaster showed the train was being operated properly prior to more than 60 cars derailing and toxic chemicals spilling, which is apparently within the spectrum of outcomes according to the operational guidelines of the railroad