Metro: Employee dies from work-related injury

Another Metro worker has died after being injured on the job, according to Metro. Geoffrey Hunter, 61, a former police captain who was working in the agency’s emergency management office, died June 10 “following a work-related injury,” Metro General Manager Richard Sarles wrote to employees in a weekly newsletter. He will be the 27th worker added to Metro’s memorial of employees who died while doing their jobs, located inside the Metro Center station.

Hunter injured his back and leg on May 9 when he fell while leaving a charter bus, said Metro spokesman Dan Stessel. Originally, he didn’t think much of it, Stessel said, but it continued to bother him. He went to the hospital 12 days later.