The Daily News reports, "A veteran city transit worker was electrocuted early Monday on elevated A-line tracks in Queens... The man died about 4:30 a.m. when he apparently tripped and fell on the electrified third rail at the Beach 90th St. station in Rockaway Beach, the sources said." It's unclear if the morning's rain contributed to his death, which is the first NYC Transit fatality since April 2007, when two works were killed within five days (one at Columbus Circle, the other at Hoyt-Schemerrhorn).
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