OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #1009026
WORK RULES,STRUCK BY,TRAIN,INATTENTION
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 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 38
- Occupation code
- 527
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 16
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Fatality Age 44 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 38
- Occupation code
- 527
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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