Steps installed to prevent platform accidents

Steps installed to prevent platform accidents

TOKYO, Japan - Workers sent from East Japan Railway Co. set up steps at Tokyo's JR Hamamatsucho Station March 3 to prevent platform accidents. Steps were placed in the wake of the Jan. 26 accident at JR Shin-Okubo Station, where two men were killed while trying to rescue a drunken man who fell onto the track. There were no evacuation spaces at the station.

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