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Third-Rail Explosion on Bronx Subway Track Spurs Call for Rubber Baskets

By SARAH DORSEY
Posted 6/22/15

Gerald Williams was affixing a wire basket to a subway track at the 6-line St. Lawrence Ave. station in The Bronx when the explosion hit him: a huge blast that knocked him to the ground and briefly blinded him.

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