{"id":4776,"date":"2012-08-24T12:25:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T19:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/?p=4776"},"modified":"2013-04-03T15:11:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T22:11:35","slug":"railroad-worker-killed-by-falling-track-equipment-in-kearny-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/4776\/railroad-worker-killed-by-falling-track-equipment-in-kearny-new-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"Railroad Worker Killed by Falling Track Equipment in Kearny New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KEARNY, N.J. &#8212; According to officials, a New Jersey transit worker from Bayonne was killed on Wednesday, August 22, when he was struck by track equipment at the Meadows Maintenance Complex in Kearny.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4780\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4780\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4780\" title=\"kearny-nj-new-jersey-transit-worker-killed-rail-yard\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/kearny-nj-new-jersey-transit-worker-killed-rail-yard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/kearny-nj-new-jersey-transit-worker-killed-rail-yard.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/kearny-nj-new-jersey-transit-worker-killed-rail-yard-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4780\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Meadows Maintenance Complex in Kearny, NJ where a New Jersey Transit worker was killed by falling track equipment on August 22, 2012. Photo credit: Star-Ledger<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->The incident occurred at approximately 1:30 p.m. The victim was identified as 44 year-old Alijandro Baroni who died from head injuries he sustained in the accident. Baroni was pronounced dead at Clara Maass Medical Center in Belleville, NJ Transit spokeswoman Nancy Snyder said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4782\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4782\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4782\" title=\"kearny-nj-new-jersey-transit-worker-killed-map\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/kearny-nj-new-jersey-transit-worker-killed-map.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/kearny-nj-new-jersey-transit-worker-killed-map.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/kearny-nj-new-jersey-transit-worker-killed-map-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4782\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map showing location of the Meadows Maintenance Complex in Kearny, NJ where a New Jersey Transit worker was killed on August 22, 2012.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Baroni was employed by NJ Transit as a track man for 11 years.<\/p>\n<p>The incident remains under investigation by NJ Transit police and the Federal Railroad Administration at this time.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Posted by Gordon &#038;amp Elias, a FELA lawyer and <a title=\"railroad injury lawyer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">railroad injury lawyer<\/a> blog that publishes train accidents and FELA legal news from across the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KEARNY, N.J. &#8212; According to officials, a New Jersey transit worker from Bayonne was killed on Wednesday, August 22, when he was struck by track equipment at the Meadows Maintenance Complex in Kearny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,107],"tags":[109,260],"class_list":["post-4776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-jersey-railroad-news","category-new-jersey-transit","tag-new-jersey-fela-lawyer","tag-new-jersey-railroad-injury-lawyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4776"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5593,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4776\/revisions\/5593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}