Ohio Train Derailment ‘100 Percent Preventable’: NTSB

Clean-up continues in the aftermath of the Norfolk Southern Railway train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. Jeff Louderback/The Epoch Times

An overheated wheel bearing is what caused the Feb. 3 derailment of a Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio—an incident that was “100 percent preventable,” according to National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chair Jennifer Homendy.

“Every event we investigate is preventable,” Homendy noted at a Feb. 23, press conference in Washington. “Know that the NTSB has one goal, and that is safety and making sure this never happens again.”