NYC – A Metropolitan Transportation Authority track supervisor was electrocuted on the Beach 90th Street Station in the Rockaways this morning.
MTA officials said 13-year transit veteran James Knell, 45, came in contact with an electrified third rail around 4:30 a.m. while working on a station rehabilitation project.
“We lost one of our own this morning and labeling this incident a tragedy is a painful statement of the obvious,” said MTA NYC Transit President Thomas F. Prendergast in a statement.
Police and the MTA’s Office of System Safety and Department of Subways are investigating the incident.
(Source: NY1)
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It’s about time to update the system. The third rail can be put somewhere more out of reach. Perhaps it can be put underneath the tracks or covered from almost four sides. The tracks really are a relic of days gone by.