And you think you’ve had crappy days at work.
A Long Island Rail Road repairman had an epically stinky experience on the job when he was asked to fix a train car — and ended up covered in human waste.
Christopher Casey was working at the LIRR’s Hillside Maintenance Facility in Queens when he was told to work on the underside of a train car, he said in a Manhattan Federal Court lawsuit.
That’s when the poop hit the fan — and his face.
The job, which Casey was undertaking on a 77-degree in August, included replacing a cable for a handle on a cut out on a “black water tank,” which holds raw sewage.
But “suddenly and without warning the waste pipe cut-out opened and expelled the contents of the black water tank, consisting of human waste, directly onto [his] head,” Casey said in court papers.
The worker couldn’t flush away the gross situation and accused the LIRR of failing to follow it’s own protocols after the incident to “mitigate the health risks of occupational exposure to human waste,” Casey claimed.
The tank should have been emptied before he started the work, Casey alleged in the lawsuit against the LIRR, which seeks unspecified damages.
The incident left him with unspecified but “severe and disabling injuries,” according to the lawsuit.
The MTA said it had not received the lawsuit.