IMPROVING FOR WORKERS. SURVEILLANCE VIDEO CAPTURES A WORKER, THROWS SOMETHING DOWN ON THE TRACKS AND HIS BODY LANGUAGE IS UNMISTAKABLE. HE WAS TERRIFIED THAT HE HAD ALMOST GOTTEN HIT BY THAT TRAIN.

A train avoided hitting track workers by two seconds in a “near miss” caused by location confusion, a safety investigation has found. On 27 November 2024, passenger train 1Y97 was travelling at 78mph ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An MTA track cleaner collapsed on the job in Brooklyn this week, dying a short time later of an apparent heart attack, the ...

In 2007, several subway operations fatalities occurred in the United States, prompting the U.S. Department of Transportation to push the industry to reduce hazards associated with maintenance and ...

Federal transit officials are set to put stronger protections in place for track workers on the nation’s subway systems, a move that comes less than six months after a New York City Transit employee ...

Two workers were injured on Tuesday when a pair of track maintenance vehicles collided on tracks near the JFK/UMass MBTA stop, the agency said. One worker sustained a leg injury, while a second worker ...

Track workers at the MBTA again had to get out of the way of a moving train that came dangerously close to them, this time on March 1, the agency reported Thursday, marking the latest in a long series ...