Another Construction Worker Injured in Grand Central Tunnel Project Updated February 11, 2011 11:07am

The entrance to the construction tunnel. (DNAinfo/Olivia Scheck)

By Olivia Scheck

DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

MIDTOWN — Another construction worker was injured while working on a tunnel connecting the Long Island Rail Road to Grand Central Terminal, fire officials said Friday.

FDNY received a call about the hurt worker about 9:19 a.m. Friday morning. He was taken out of the tunnel project at 28 East 48th St., near Park Avenue, and brought to New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, the fire department said.

The man fell off a ladder in the tunnel and may have fractured his ankle, the MTA said.

A construction worker on a separate, but nearby project, said he'd heard the workers on the tunnel project were "up to their knees in mud down there."

"Those guys lose like 20 years off life between the pressure and the fumes," said the worker, who did not want to be identified.

On Thursday morning, a man working on the tunnel project was injured and taken to Bellevue Hospital. His injuries did not appear serious, fire officials said.

That man was driving a payloader used to remove dirt from the tunnel when another vehicle backed into his, FDNY Deputy Chief James Hodgens said at the scene.