OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #824045
MASS TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION
BALTIMORE, MD·
Event description
Employee injured when struck by a train
Investigation abstract
On February 23, 1987, Employee #1 and a coworker on the midnight shift were sent in was traveling on track #1 in a reverse traffic pattern. The darkness and snow restricted both visibility and sound transmission. Employee #1 was also wearing a hood at the time of the accident. to clear switch #21 along track #1, which was not working due to snow between t he rails. Snow was falling heavily but the subway trains had been kept running t o keep the track clear for the following day's operations. At approximately 5:05 a.m., Employee #1 was on the track sweeping snow from the switch when a train t hat had been running on another track was switched to track #1 and struck him as he tried to jump clear. He suffered two fractured legs, one with serious bone a nd tissue damage, and a fractured shoulder. The employees did not expect a train on track #1 and the train engineer did not expect to see workers on it. The tra
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 38
- Occupation code
- 825
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 17
- Task assigned
- 1
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