An ironworker was critically injured Saturday morning after she was electrocuted while working on a construction site along the Long Island Rail Road.
MTA officials said the incident occurred around 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the Mineola train station. Crews were putting up a pedestrian bridge over the tracks when a crane came into contact with high voltage wires.
“The contact with the high voltage line created an arc to the bridge that seriously injured a female ironworker who was on the structure at the time,” said MTA Construction and Development President Janno Lieber.
The injured worker was admitted to the ICU and was listen in critical
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