An NYC Transit subcontractor was killed in a gruesome accident in Brooklyn Friday morning - crushed to death while unloading heavy material from a truck, police said.
Truck driver Richard Lang was unloading a haul of subway panels at the Avenue M station in Midwood shortly after 8 a.m. when the load suddenly shifted and fell on top of him, police and NYC Transit officials said.
Subway panels are large, pre-fabricated metal sections that are used as windscreens or exterior walls at elevated subway stations, according to a spokeswoman for NYC Transit.
The materials were being delivered as part of a project to rehabilitate the subway station, which serves the Q train.
Lang, of New Jersey, was an employee of Preferred Transit Inc., a trucking company with a base in Whitehouse, N.J.
A message left with the company was not immediately returned Friday.
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