The largest injury firm in the U.S. is suing Norfolk Southern over the train derailment in East Palestine.

According to the release, Morgan & Morgan has filed a new lawsuit against the company.

The lawsuit alleges Norfolk Southern's efforts to clean up and mitigate the disaster have actually worsened the situation. The lawsuit alleges the failure to extinguish the fires from the derailment and the "blowing holes" in the cars containing vinyl chloride led to 1.1 million pounds of vinyl chloride being released into the East Palestine area.

According to the release, the EPA said that is more than double the amount of vinyl chloride all industrial emitters release in the United States combined over the course of a year.

“I’m not sure Norfolk Southern could have come up with a worse plan to address this disaster,” said attorney John Morgan. “Residents exposed to vinyl chloride may already be undergoing DNA mutations that could linger for years or even decades before manifesting as terrible and deadly cancers. The lawsuit alleges that Norfolk Southern made it worse by essentially blasting the town with chemicals as they focused on restoring train service and protecting their shareholders.”

The complaint also alleges that Norfolk Southern chose a cheaper, less safe containment method instead of safer and more costly efforts to clean up the spill.

Morgan & Morgan has experience with this type of man-made environmental disaster. The firm cited its successful litigation against corporations in cases connected to the BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Porter Ranch gas well blowout, and the Merrimack Valley gas explosions.

The class action suit was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio Eastern Division in Youngstown.