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After the death of two track workers in less than a week late last month and subsequent downtime for subsequent track safety refresher courses the NYC Transit has found that supervisors are still lack in their safety procedures.
Random checks of maintenance and other projects late Monday found some supervisors and trackmen were ignoring key guidelines, the sources said.
For example, some crews were not using safety devices that should be placed on tracks to trigger the brakes of trains barreling into a work zone, sources said.
In another incident, track inspector John Samuelsen said he saw a gang of about a dozen rookie trackmen and their supervisor collecting debris near a curve on the tracks.
If a train had come down the tracks, the workers would not have had anywhere to seek refuge, Samuelsen said. The crew also was not using the safety device to trigger a train’s brakes, he said.
We have no idea how much those guys get paid but our guess it isn’t enough. The NYC Transit needs to step up and come down hard on supervisors who are found putting their crew in harms way. No job is worth dying over and to have it happening because basic safety procedures aren’t being followed is intolerable.
It may be easy to take for granted the guys who work their ass off to maintain the tracks that carry millions of us to work on a daily basis, it’s not necessary to make their job any more dangerous.
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