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24 March 2016
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Safety lapse in track accident, says SMRT
Trains should have been stopped from going into sector where track work was being done
A day after two of its trainees were hit and killed by an oncoming train just outside Pasir Ris station, SMRT has disclosed that a key safety procedure was not followed.
The rail operator revealed yesterday that a group of 15 technicians, including the victims, failed to notify a station signal unit that they were stepping back onto the track.
That meant a train travelling at 60kmh on an automatic mode was not diverted to an alternate platform or told to stop. The driver applied emergency brakes when he saw staff on the track, but it was too late.
“We take responsibility and apologise for the tragic accident,” SMRT added in its statement released yesterday evening. This came just hours after Mr Nasrulhudin Najumudin, 26, and Mr Muhammad Asyraf Ahmad Buhari, 24, were buried at the Muslim cemetery in Lim Chu Kang.
SMRT said it has established a team to evaluate all workplace safety procedures and instituted mandatory work-team level safety reviews.
http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/safety-lapse-in-track-accident-says-smrt
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Yesterday, Mr Nasrulhudin Najumudin and Mr Muhammad Asyraf Ahmad Buhari were buried side by side, one after the other, at Choa Chu Kang Cemetery before some 500 relatives and friends.
“Goodbye papa.”
That was the text message Mr Muhammad Asyraf Ahmad Buhari sent to his father, who was performing his umrah pilgrimage with his wife and two younger children, last Friday.
It turned out to be his last.
On Tuesday morning, Mr Asyraf and his SMRT colleague, Mr Nasrulhudin Najumudin, 26, were killed in an accident near Pasir Ris MRT station.
Mr Asyraf, the second of four children, had just turned 24 on Sunday and was part of a team investigating a reported alarm from equipment along the train tracks when the accident happened.
His father, Mr Ahmad Buhari, 61, who works multiple jobs, told The New Paper that on Tuesday (Singapore time), he was in Mecca when his wife felt something was off.
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23 March 2016
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Mr Nasrulhudin (inset, left) and Mr Asyraf (inset, right) were in a team of 15 on a walkway beside the eastbound tracks, about 150m from the platform at Pasir Ris MRT station, when tragedy struck. — PHOTO: The Straits Times, Facebook
Residents living near Pasir Ris MRT station described what they saw and heard just moments before the two SMRT employees were hit and killed by an oncoming train yesterday (Mar 22).
Several Stompers had contributed photos of the incident, which took place at around 11.10am yesterday. We also reported live from the scene.
Singaporeans, Nasrulhudin Najumudin, 26 and Muhammad Asyraf Ahmad Buhari, 24, were apparently undergoing on-the-job training when the fatal accident happened.
They were part of a technical team — which also consisted of 13 others — that went down to the track to investigate a reported alarm from a condition monitoring device for signalling equipment.
Two witnesses recounted the tragedy to The New Paper.
Mrs Tandra Haldei, who lives opposite Pasir Ris MRT station at Block 528B, Pasir Ris Street 51, first spotted the group of SMRT workers walking on the tracks at about 11am yesterday.
The 34-year-old housewife, who has been living there with her husband and their two young children for two years, was surprised as it was her first time seeing workers on the tracks.
However, she then heard workers scream and shout.
“I looked out of my living room window and saw them waving their hands in the air. They looked like they were trying to stop the train that was approaching in their direction. It was moving so fast that I was scared for them.”
Within seconds, she heard a loud screech from the train brakes.
“The next thing I knew, the train had stopped and I saw a body on the tracks. I was so shocked that the deaths took place so near my home. I feel so sad for the victims.”
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