Feroli v. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

The plaintiff was injured while boarding a rapid transit train at the Wollaston station of the defendant carrier (MBTA). She was injured, she claims, because of the variance in height between the floor of the train and the passenger platform and because of the lateral spacebetween the platform and the doorway of the train.

The trial judge’s findings1 were as follows:

I find that on 6/2/84 as the plaintiff boarded a train at Wollaston Station, the floor of the train was approximately 2 inches higher than the platform and a gap of at least 6 inches existed between the platform and the floor of…