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http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/breaking/Worker-Trapped-Killed-by-Huge-Roll-of-Paper-Inquirer-152026915.html



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Do not mess with plug doors that are reported open.

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Pretty damn sad... How often you spotted tha joint Phreddie? The rolls are usually pretty secured inside the boxes, although they DO shift around, especially if the car is handled many times, or pushed over a hump with shitty retarders!

Poor dude's family... Going after Arcelor Mittal, the guy's family might wanna consider doing a bit of reading about who the company is...and their international businesses from the USA, and everywhere else in N. America.

They (Mittal) have very deep pockets, and a huge team of attorneys.

Just sayin'...



-- Edited by Uke on Monday 28th of May 2012 08:33:52 AM

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Yook, Yook, Yook, do you read this stuff or do you just scan through it? Just wondering. Don't think Phreddie (or Troll, even when he's marked up) ever spotted this place.

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Arcellor Mittal is now owned 100% by the Russians... They swallowed up Dofasco (A Canadian steel/iron outfit) a few years ago... Dofasco made the truck castings for Canadian/Canadien built EMDs back then. Take a peek at some of the olders SD-40s...

Arcellor has obviously diversified since Dofasco, and now is a 'contractor' doing work that isn't related ta metals... And yes Cy, I read the article, not just scanned through it!



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Read this Cy:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dofasco

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Well, all right, Uke, all right, that article doesn't say it but other articles after this happened stated that he worked for the Brandywine Valley Railroad, which appears to be a industrial shortline, perhaps even an in-plant operation.

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This'll straighten some of the mess out Cy... How that Brandywine Valley outfit came ta be, and the 'connection' ta Arcellor-Mittal.

Brandywine Valley Railroad
Reporting mark BVRY
Locale Coatesville, Pennsylvania
Dates of operation 1981
Track gauge 4 ft 8 12 in (1,435 mm) (standard gauge)
Headquarters Coatesville, Pennsylvania
Website http://www.mittalsteel.com

The Brandywine Valley Railroad (reporting mark BVRY) is a class III railroad operating in Pennsylvania.

It was established in 1981 by the Lukens Steel Company to operate trackage at Coatesville, Pennsylvania and the neighboring town of Modena. It was acquired, with the rest of the Lukens properties, by Bethlehem Steel Corporation in 1998.[1]

The Brandywine Valley's main line was originally built by the Wilmington and Northern Railroad, largely following the Brandywine Creek, to connect Reading with Wilmington, Delaware. By the time of the Brandywine Valley's formation, the line had been abandoned north of Valley Station, just north of Coatesville. BVRY took over the line from this point, the site of an interchange with Amtrak's Keystone Corridor, south to Modena, below which the ex-W&N was owned by PennDOT and operated by a number of shortlines over the years.

Under Bethlehem operation, BVRY took over operation of the Delaware Valley Railroad, then operating the remainder of the ex-Wilmington and Northern, in early 1999.[1] This gave the railroad interchange access not only to Conrail at Coatesville (subsequently replaced by the Norfolk Southern Railway), but to CSX Transportation at the southern end of the line at Elsmere, Delaware. It also thus began to operate a connecting branch of the former Pennsylvania Railroad from Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, on the W&N, to Nottingham.

After the acquisition of Bethlehem Steel's assets by International Steel Group in 2003, Brandywine Valley began to scale back its operations. The ex-PRR line, also known as the Octoraro line, was taken over in that year by the Morristown and Erie Railroad.[2] In 2005, the ex-W&N line south of Modena was turned over to the East Penn Railroad, reducing the Brandywine Valley to its original extent.[3]

With the merger of ISG in 2005, the railroad and steel plant are now owned by Mittal Steel Company.

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