Dozens of NJ Transit Engineers Were Diagnosed With Sleep Apnea, Agency Says
More than 40 New Jersey Transit train engineers were sidelined after testing imposed in the wake of a deadly rail crash found that they suffered from sleep apnea, the agency said Wednesday following mandates instituted after the deadly crash in Hoboken last year. Pei-Sze Cheng reports.
(Published Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017)
Submitted by New Jersey Truck Crash Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark
More than 40 New Jersey Transit train engineers were sidelined after testing imposed in the wake of a deadly rail crash found that they suffered from sleep apnea, the agency said Wednesday following mandates instituted after the deadly crash in Hoboken last year.
NJ Transit made changes to its sleep apnea screening process, in place since 2005, after the September 2016 crash at Hoboken Terminal.
The agency screened 373 engineers for sleep disorders over the past year — 57 of those engineers were referred to for a sleep study. Of the 57 engineers, 44 were diagnosed with sleep apnea and were taken out of service until they could be cleared by a doctor or treated, the agency said. (The 13 other engineers were found to not have sleep disorders.)
As of Wednesday, only two of the engineers remained sidelined, according to NJ Transit.
