A confirmed case of tuberculosis — and two other possible cases — at an MTA facility in Brooklyn has transit officials scrambling to get dozens of employees tested.
A supervisor at the facility that serves as a base for subway-station washing trucks learned over the weekend about her diagnosis, according to officials at Transport Workers Union Local 100.
And this week, two others learned they could have the highly infectious disease. All three are out on sick leave, the MTA said.
A spokesman for NYC Transit said the medical director is meeting with the staff and “the work performed by members of the mobile wash teams does not bring them into close contact with our customers.”
But Maurice Jenkins, a vice president at the union, said, “These workers go out into the public, and our main priority is to keep the public safe.”