By Adam Nichols
DNAinfo News Editor
UNION SQUARE — An horrific accident left a man crushed between a subway train and the platform for more than 30 minutes as workers struggled to free him.
The man, 41, slipped into an eight inch gap between a movable platform and a number 4 train at Union Square station at 10 p.m. Friday, the New York Post reported.
The train crushed him at the waistline. Witnesses told the Post he was conscious and screaming in agony.
Motorman Janice Carter told the newspaper people started banging on her window and shouting that somebody was trapped.
"It was complete madness," she told the paper.
"People everywhere. I saw the man between the gap filler and the train. He was yelling."
The man wasn't freed until a track worker was able to release the hydraulics that control the gap filler, an extentable platform used to bridge gaps where platforms curve.
The man was taken to Bellevue Hospital where his condition was descibed as critical.
