MIDTOWN — A Metro-North employee was injured Wednesday after his leg was wedged between a pole and a cart he was riding in, the MTA said.
The worker was riding in a golf-cart type electric car on the platform between Track 103 and Track 104 at the terminal around 3:45 p.m. when the accident happened, an MTA spokeswoman said.
The man was taken to Bellevue Hospital in serious condition shortly after 3:45 p.m, according to the FDNY.
The MTA spokeswoman was “not sure” about the extent of the man's injury, but said he was in stable condition at the hospital around 5 p.m.
After the incident on Wednesday, police and Metro-North staff at the scene had blocked off Track 104, but could not provide further information about the incident.
“We heard [the worker] scream, and then all the units came here to help him,” Abdalla Elfeky, an assistant manager at Zaro Family Bakery across from the track's entrance, said.
Elfeky, 28, claimed both the man’s legs had been injured, and said he and his co-workers saw blood on the platform after the incident.
Both the man’s legs appeared mangled and bloody when emergency personnel wheeled him off the tracks, Elfeky said.
“He was in agony. He was yelling so much, he lost consciousness," said bakery employee Lucy Medina, 30.
“It was gruesome,” she added.
The MTA spokeswoman said workers often drive carts along the tracks to carry out perform tasks like garbage removal.
