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Posted 26 May 2017 - 06:39 PM

WTOP radio, 5/25/17:
 

Skipped safety steps led to latest near miss on Metro tracks

 

 

WASHINGTON — Three people had to jump out of the way of an oncoming Metro train last week because of a series of skipped safety steps, Metro’s chief safety officer said Thursday.

 

Two Metro workers and an AT&T employee who did not belong on the tracks while trains were carrying passengers wrongly entered the Yellow Line tracks near Eisenhower Ave. on May 18 without the required level of protection, Pat Lavin told the Metro Board Safety Committee.

 

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This is the fifth time this year Metro workers are known to have been nearly struck by a train — an average of one incident per month.

 

“These (incidents) are part of the culture that we need to change. If you have, for 40 years, people behaving in a certain way and you’re trying to change that, it’s a very difficult task to accomplish,” Lavin said.

 

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