Updated 11:22 AM
MTA Supervisor Electrocuted In Rockaways
By: NY1 News
A Metropolitan Transportation Authority track supervisor was electrocuted on the Beach 90th Street Station in the Rockaways this morning.
MTA officials said 13-year transit veteran James Knell, 45, came in contact with an electrified third rail around 4:30 a.m. while working on a station rehabilitation project.
“We lost one of our own this morning and labeling this incident a tragedy is a painful statement of the obvious,” said MTA NYC Transit President Thomas F. Prendergast in a statement.
Knell, an East Rockaway resident, is survived by a wife and two children, according to the MTA.
Police and the MTA's Office of System Safety and Department of Subways are investigating the incident.
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