Ohio Residents See Dead Fish, Chickens Following Toxic Chemical Spill From Train Derailment

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Ohio Residents See Dead Fish, Chickens Following Toxic Chemical Spill From Train Derailment

Hannah Nightingale with The Post Millennial reports:

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While residents in East Palestine, Ohio have been allowed to return to their homes following a train derailment earlier this month which released toxic chemicals, they have come back to find fish dead in rivers and creeks, and the smell of chemicals lingering in the air. After the spill, officials set the chemicals on fire as a means of disposing of them.

Initial reports stated that five of the derailed train cars carried vinyl chloride, a colorless gas used to make PVC plastics. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the exposure limit for workers is 1 part per million over an 8-hour shift. The National Cancer Institute states that exposure to vinyl chloride comes with an increased risk of rare liver cancer as well as brain and lung cancers, lymphoma, and leukemia.

New reports have revealed though that three additional chemicals were on the derailed Norfolk Southern train.

According to WKBN, the US Environmental Protection Agency sent a letter to Norfolk Southern stating that ethylene glycol monobutyl ether, ethylhexyl acrylate and isobutylene were also in the derailed train cars.

Sil Caggiano, a hazardous materials specialist, told WKBN that ethylhexyl acrylate is an especially worrisome chemical, being a carcinogen and contact with the chemical can cause burning and irritation of the skin and eyes. Breathing it in can irritate the nose and throat, and cause shortness of breath and coughing.

Isobutylene is known to cause dizziness and drowsiness when inhaled.