OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #1009026
NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY
NEW YORK, NY·
Event description
Two employees killed when struck by express subway train
Investigation abstract
At 1:23 p.m. on March 30, 1989, Employees # 1 and #2, Transit Authority telephon the train struck them. e maintainers, were walking northbound between the running rails when an express subway train came around a curve heading in the same direction. According to hi s statements to the Transit Authority and the NYC Police, the subway's motorman immediately activated the train's emergency brake and sounded the horn when he s aw the workers' reflective vests and flashlights. Employees #1 and #2 were struc k and killed. No definite reason was established as to why the two employees wer e on the tracks. A witness said that she saw two men standing on the tracks with their heads down, apparently in discussion, and that they looked up just before
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 31 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- MULTIPLE (19)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- TRAIN/RAILROAD EQUIP (38)
- Occupation
- Telephone line installers and repairers (527)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- SOUND LEVEL (16)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
-
#2 Fatality Age 44 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- MULTIPLE (19)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- TRAIN/RAILROAD EQUIP (38)
- Occupation
- Telephone line installers and repairers (527)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- WORK-SURFACE/FACIL-LAYOUT COND (13)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.