NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A 36-year-old West Haven man died at Yale-New Haven Hospital Tuesday night after being crushed in repair equipment at the Metro-North New Haven rail yard machinery shop, the Connecticut Post reports.
Metropolitan Transportation Police in New York City said Jeffrey M. Pieger, 36, of Bull Hill Lane, West Haven, had worked for Metro-North as a mechanic about a year.
Pieger was working on a train engine at 8:45 p.m. when he became trapped between a cutting machine and the engine’s contact shoe, a device that draws power from the track’s third rail, said Thomas Kelly, spokesman for the rail police.
Officials of the state Department of Labor OSHA unit could not be reached Wednesday to determine if they are investigating the accident.
Pieger’s family members could not be reached to determine funeral arrangements.