UPDATE: Metro rider falls into escalator hatch left open

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UPDATE 11:05 a.m.: Metro General Manager Richard Sarles tells The Washington Examiner that the two employees involved in the escalator work are “no longer with Metro.”

A 52-year-old Metro rider fell into an escalator hatch that had wrongly been left open at the Pentagon rail station last week, injuring her knee and cutting her chin, Metro officials said on Thursday.

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