Ohio Sen. Brown is pushing his legislation, the Railway Safety Act, after a Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in Ohio's fourth rail incident in the last couple of months.
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Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown spoke with GMA 3 about the incident and his legislation, the Railway Safety Act. They've compromised on safety. The workers don't have enough time to do the thorough inspections they should do. So companies like this do the kind of damage they did for, again, four derailments in five months in my state.
I don't know if that's what we're going to need to do in East Palestine. If we do, if we write a law like that or we're going to hold Norfolk Southern accountable for the damage they did. It improves the safety of wheel bearings, which has been the cause of more of these accidents than anything else. It ups the fines. The average fine Norfolk Southern paid in the last few years is $10,000 for safety violations. That's pennies on the dollar of a company that gives $6, $7 billion in stock buybacks.
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