The decision by the New York City Employees' Retirement System to twice deny the post-traumatic stress disorder pension-disability claim of a former subway flagman who was hit by a train in a 2016 accident that killed his co-worker is being blasted by members of the City Council and the State Senate.
Jeffrey Fleming was working on the F line in Brooklyn just after midnight on Nov. 3, 2016 with Louis Gray, a 53-year-old Track Worker, when they "were struck and pinned" between a G train and the bench wall in the tunnel, according to the National Transportation Safety Board, which investigated the accident and faulted management for the fatal accident.
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