CeramFab files $500 million suit against NS
This article features research from Government Accountability Project’s whistleblower client, Scott Smith, and was originally published here.
EAST PALESTINE — The owner of an East Palestine business, who claims he “lost nearly everything” in the wake of the Feb. 3 train derailment, filed a $500 million lawsuit against Norfolk Southern Tuesday in the U.S. Northern District Court Of Ohio.
Edwin Wang, majority owner of CeramFab, WYG Refractories and CeramSource and Yonggong, said the disaster created an unsafe environment for his employees and forced him to close or relocate all his operations.
The lawsuit states that the businesses that are continuing to suffer “direct and substantial damages” due to “the fire and release of toxic chemicals into the air, soil and water” that followed the derailment. The six-count complaint alleges negligence, strict liability, private nuisance, public nuisance, trespass and willful and wanton conduct on the part of the railroad. The lawsuit also states that Norfolk’s actions following the derailment “created an unmitigated disaster of unimaginable portions with terrible consequences for its innocent victims.”
All four companies are located within close proximity to the derailment site, with the 80,000-square-foot CeramFab facility is located within the site itself and directly next to what Unified Command referred to as Car Scrapping Area 4 –where burned out cars were dismantled for disposal.
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