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Jury grants $10M to man crushed by platform extender at Manhattan subway station
A Manhattan jury awarded $10 million to a man who spent a horrifying 15 minutes trapped between an automated subway platform extender and a train.
Michael Dion was at the Union Square station back in 2010 when he got caught between the automatic platform extender and a 4 train.
The extender crushed into him 167 times before an electrician was able to turn it off, said his lawyer Jay Dankner.
Dion, a marketing exec, suffered fractures to both sides of his pelvis, damages to his internal organs and massive internal bleeding.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/jury-grants-10m-man-crushed-subway-platform-extender-article-1.2846420