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Omaha Steve

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Sat Jan 15, 2022, 11:11 AM Jan 2022

Omaha business owners sentenced to prison for role in deadly 2015 railcar explosion


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Law enforcement at the scene of a railcar explosion on April 14, 2015, in Omaha.

MEGAN FARMER, THE WORLD-HERALD
Molly Ashford

By Molly Ashford 2 hrs ago

Two Omaha business owners were sentenced to prison on Friday for violating worker safety standards before a 2015 explosion that left two of their employees dead.

Brothers Steven and Adam Braithwaite and their company, Nebraska Railcar Cleaning Services, pleaded guilty in July to a litany of federal charges.

Steven Braithwaite, who served as president of NRCS, pleaded guilty to two counts of violating a worker safety standard causing a worker death and one count of knowingly endangering others by violating the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. He will serve 30 months in prison.

Adam Braithwaite, vice president of the company, pleaded guilty to two counts of violating a worker safety standard causing death, two counts of falsification of records in a federal investigation and one count of perjury. He will serve one year and one day in prison.

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Omaha business owners sentenced to prison for role in deadly 2015 railcar explosion (Original Post) Omaha Steve Jan 2022 OP
30 months? SheltieLover Jan 2022 #1
In Most Of The Sites In Which I Worked... ProfessorGAC Jan 2022 #2

ProfessorGAC

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2. In Most Of The Sites In Which I Worked...
Sat Jan 15, 2022, 11:29 AM
Jan 2022

...people would get fired for even suggesting it would be ok to enter the tank.
EL meters have to read ZERO in those places.
The benzene exposure is super bad, but I'm betting it's only one flammable component.
Petroleum distillates usually low chain have -anes & -enes that can be even more volatile, and have a wider flammability ranges.
These guys deserved longer sentences & the company deserved way more than a $21,000 fine.

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