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04/29/2010 09:13 AM
Subway Operator Dies At The Controls Of G Train
By: NY1 News
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A subway operator died of an apparent heart attack while at the controls of a G train yesterday.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority says Domenick Occhiogrosso, 50, was pulling a train out of the station at Long Island City-Court Square just after 8 a.m. when he collapsed.
The train's emergency brakes were activated when he stopped applying pressure to the controls; a safety feature that is known as the dead man switch. The train's conductor walked to the lead car and found Occhiogrosso unconscious.
Occhiogrosso is the second city transit worker to die on the job this week.
Transit supervisor James Knell, 45, was electrocuted Monday while working on a rehabilitation project at the Beach 90th Street Station in Rockaway Beach.
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