Lawsuit Claims Nov. Paulsboro Train Spill Killed Jersey Woman

The Star-Ledger reports:

Wessie Hardy, who lived on West Broad Street, was outside doing her daily chores, her family claims, when a train derailed over the Jefferson Street Bridge about a mile away, sending four tanker cars into the Mantua Creek and releasing thousands of pounds of vinyl chloride into the atmosphere…The 77-year-old woman had some underlying medical problems due to her age, according to Messa, but the family claims she began experiencing chest pains, difficulty breathing and burning and irritated eyes shortly after the cloud of vinyl chloride passed by her. She was taken to Underwood-Memorial Hospital and died three days later.