A former city subway flagman, who was hit by a train in a 2016 accident that killed his co-worker, has been denied a disability pension tied to post-traumatic stress disorder for the second time by the New York City Employees' Retirement System.
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.
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