'A Tragedy': Massachusetts Transportation Leader Reacts to Escalator Death
Surveillance video shows more than a dozen riders passed Steven McCluskey before an employee hit the emergency stop 22 minutes later.
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'This is a tragedy': MBTA leader reacts to escalator death
The general manager at the MBTA is responding to an NBC10 Boston investigation about a man who died after getting caught in an escalator at the agency’s Davis Station in Somerville. As first reported on Tuesday, Steven McCluskey died days after first responders freed him from the machinery and transported him to the hospital. McCluskey stepped on the escalator just before 5 a.m. on Feb. 27. Surveillance video NBC10 Boston obtained showed that Mc…
'A tragedy': Massachusetts transportation leader reacts to escalator death
The general manager at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is responding to an NBC Boston investigation about a man who died after getting caught in an escalator at the agency’s Davis Station in Somerville, Mass. As first reported on Tuesday, Steven McCluskey died days after first responders freed him from the machinery and transported him to the hospital. McCluskey stepped on the escalator just before 5 a.m. on Feb. 27. Surveillance …
Shortly before 5 a.m. on February 27, Steven McCluskey climbed a escalator and went down to the subway platform at MBTA Davis Station in Somerville, Massachusetts. The escalator journey would mark the last moments of this 40-year-old man’s life. Once he arrived at the end, a surveillance video—obtained by the NBC10 Boston research team—shows how McCluskey loses balance and falls to the ground. He would never get up again. The surveillance video,…
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