A transit worker is recovering after being struck by a moving train.
“Our hearts and prayers go out to his family,” Demetrius Crichlow, senior vice president of the New York City Transit Department of Subways, said.
What You Need To Know
- According to the MTA, a worker was struck by a northbound F train at 1 a.m. Thursday
- The worker was taken to Bellevue Hospital with head trauma and is stable, officials said
- The MTA said it is doing a “thorough investigation”
- This worker being hit comes less than six months after another worker, Hilarion Joseph, was struck and killed at the Herald Square station
According to the MTA, a flagger was hit by a northbound F train at the Hoyt-Schermerhorn Street station around 1 a.m. Thursday.
A flagger is an employee that alerts train operators of work going on further down on the tracks.
He was taken to Bellevue Hospital with head trauma and is stable, according to officials.
“This shouldn’t happen to our employees,” Crichlow said. “We are doing everything we can to make sure our employees are safe. We are doing a thorough investigation of what transpired.”
Transit Workers Union Local 100 President Richard Davis acknowledged the injured worker at a briefing Thursday.
“One of our brothers was hit by a train today. Our prayers go out to his family,” Davis said.
This is the second time in less than six months that a transit worker was hit by a train.
Hilarion Joseph was another flagger who was fatally struck at the Herald Square station in Manhattan.
Crichlow said the MTA is doing what is necessary to prevent incidents like this from happening again.