The National Transportation Safety Board has confirmed the deaths of two construction workers on Oct. 14 on the Ben Franklin Bridge between New Jersey and Pennsylvania near Philadelphia when they were struck during night work by a Port Authority Transit Corp (PATCO) train traveling on tracks that were supposed to be shut down as part of a planned outage.
The workers were confirmed as employees of JPC Group Inc., a Blackwood, N.J.-based subcontractor to contractor Skanska Koch, Carteret, N.J., on a construction project for the Delaware River Port Authority on the bridge, which carries trains and road traffic.