A 25-year-old blind man who fell Sunday from a platform at JR Shinanomachi Station in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, suffered only minor injuries thanks to the prompt response of a station employee in halting an oncoming train, railway officials said.
East Japan Railway Co. officials said the man, whose name was not provided, was taken to a hospital with minor shoulder injuries after the 11:55 a.m. accident.
The man fell about 1 meter to the tracks, prompting a station employee to activate an emergency braking system to halt an oncoming train. Several station employees then lifted him from the tracks.
According to JR East, trains come and go at Shinanomachi at intervals of five minutes.
A train had already left nearby Yotsuya Station for Shinanomachi for the 1-km journey when the blind man fell from the platform.