A truck that was responsible for carrying 40,000 pounds of contaminated soil from East Palestine, Ohio — where a train carrying hazardous materials crashed in February — overturned.
A truck that was responsible for carrying 40,000 pounds of contaminated soil from East Palestine, Ohio — where ain February — overturned on Monday. The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency said that roughly half of the soil that was on the truck ended up spilling along the highway.
The tractor trailer, which had an open top, was traveling north along SR-165 on Monday when the accident occurred sometime after noon local time in Columbiana County. According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol, the vehicle's 74-year-old driver, Phillip Falck, had gone off the right side of the road, hit a ditch and utility pole and overturned. When officers arrived at the scene, they found the truck"on its side, off of the right side of the roadway.
About half of the soil onboard – roughly 20,000 pounds – ended up spilling out of the truck, prompting responses from the local fire department and Ohio EPA, which said that"the spill was contained and is not a threat to nearby waterways." The soil onboard the truck was from the site in where a Norfolk Southern train went off the tracks on Feb. 3 as it was carrying numerous hazardous substances.
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