(Source: Montreal Gazette, August 2, 2013)
MONTREAL — Eleven companies in North Dakota and Illinois are being sued over their involvement in the fatal train explosion in Lac-Mégantic last month. The lawsuit alleges that Montreal, Maine and Atlantic knew it was dangerous to leave a train loaded with crude oil unattended on a main track near Nantes, where it started rolling downhill toward Lac-Mégantic.
It also alleges that the company failed to train its employees to apply enough brakes to secure the train, and says that MMA should have had more than one employee on the train’s crew.
The lawsuit also targets seven North Dakota oil companies, who, lawyers say, should not have loaded crude oil into thin-skinned DOT-111 tanker cars.
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