>1:50 PM EST, February 10, 2008
RIDGEWOOD, N.J.
An NJ Transit worker is dead after being hit by one of the agency’s trains.
NJ Transit says Simplicio Nino was struck by a train on tracks in Ridgewood at about 8:15 a.m. Sunday.
NJ Transit spokesman Dan Stessel says the 58-year-old Clifton man was a welder who worked on tracks, and had 36 years of railroad work experience.
The roughly 20 passengers on the Main Line train were transferred to another train, which completed the route from Hoboken to Suffern, N.Y.
Stessel said the exact details of the workers’ death weren’t immediately clear.
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