NY: Bodies of Subway Fatality Victims Can be Left in MTA Break Rooms for Hours, Transit Workers Union Says

The bodies of people who are struck and killed by subway trains can be temporarily kept in MTA worker break rooms for hours before being properly removed, according to the union representing MTA employees.

The practice raises sanitary and mental health concerns, according to the union, Transport Workers Union Local 100. The TWU is calling on the mayor’s office to improve the response times of the city medical examiner’s office, which must arrive at the subway station to remove the bodies.

While the MTA is a state agency, the handling of a death on the tracks is primarily the responsibility of the NYPD and the city medical examiner’s office, according to MTA spokesman Shams Tarek.

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