NYC Transit Worker Dies After Third Rail Electrocution

The Daily News reports, "A veteran city transit worker was electrocuted early Monday on elevated A-line tracks in Queens... The man died about 4:30 a.m. when he apparently tripped and fell on the electrified third rail at the Beach 90th St. station in Rockaway Beach, the sources said." It's unclear if the morning's rain contributed to his death, which is the first NYC Transit fatality since April 2007, when two works were killed within five days (one at Columbus Circle, the other at Hoyt-Schemerrhorn).

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By Jen Chung in News on April 26, 2010 1:17 PM

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inoyourider

Too bad.

This is a perfect example of the kind of WORK that goes into maintaining a transit system like ours.

For every unhelpful token booth clerk there is a whole team of people who spend their lives underground, humping steel around, while inches away from electrocution.

Jon Claw

This worker was my cousins' step-father. :(

Dead Himmler

This is why MTA workers deserve the big bucks.

silver

You can kill yourself with a forklift too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-hz1GpFpXA

FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

Is that why you were conducting a side business while out on workers comp for a finger? Did you make that copy of the key? I bet it was you. You would do anything for a buck.

Dead Himmler

I'm out with a different injury now. But still killing it in the moving business.

xgeyiph772

Almost anything. I'd never work for Gorilla Coffee!

xgeyiph772

This is why SOME workers at MTA deserve good pay. Token clerks can go work at Duane Reade if they want to be nasty and unhelpful to customers.