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:: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 ::
The Dangerous World of a Subway Trackworker - By Jennifer Gonnerman, New York Magazine
But for the community of transit workers, the worst tragedy of all is when one of their own is killed, when someone starts his shift like everyone else, wearing an orange vest and a helmet, and ends it inside a body bag. Repairing and maintaining the city’s 660 miles of subway tracks—while avoiding the third rail and dodging 400-ton trains—is not an easy task. There have been at least 230 employee fatalities since 1946. In the last decade alone, ten subway workers have been killed.------------------------------------------- posted 6:20 AM :: reference link ::
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