The report’s findings have added to calls for drug and alcohol testing - vehemently opposed by the TTC’s largest union - that came following a TTC bus driver was charged with impaired driving last week.

But Mr. Webster and Adam Giambrone, the incorporated town councillor who chairs the TTC, before-mentioned yesterday the TTC needs to compile its records before it can say how many of its workers have been disciplined for drug or alcohol.

"I really don’t want to go there. Not that many, clearly," Mr. Webster said.

Around 4:30 a.m. steady April 23, 2007, an 11-person crew removing asbestos from the subway subterranean passage walls north of Eglinton Station finished and began to head south on a two-car work train.

The front car, a flatbed, was outfitted with eight telescoping metal platforms that allowed workers to distance the tunnel walls. Pushing it from behind was a conventional subway car, driven by Mr. Almeida.

But four of those platforms, the investigation concluded, were not properly stowed. The one directly in front of Mr. Almeida’s cab was left fully extended.

It caught the side of the subterranean passage wall, causing it to pen backward into the subway-car cab where Mr. Almeida was seated, killing him instantly. Two workers were also seriously injured, and others in that place that night be favored with suffered from post-traumatic stress, Mr. Webster said.

All of the workers have insisted they stowed their platforms properly and that the equipment must have come loose. Police and TTC conduct rejected this version of events after testing the outfit and recreating the accident, Mr. Webster said.

Telling the surviving crew members this in a tense meeting this week was unaccommodating, he said, as was a new meeting by Mr. Almeida’session widow.

"What we don’t want our employees to think, what we don’t want Mrs. Almeida to think, is that we’re blaming them," Mr. Webster said. "This is not a blame game."

The TTC has taken accountableness for the accident, pleading wicked to a Ministry of Labour charge and paying a $250,000 fine.

Mr. Webster also acknowledged yesterday that the ministry’s investigation into the accident revealed that a similar work-car crash had occurred on the Bloor-Danforth line in 2002, but the TTC did not address the problem.

Mr. Webster, who has spurred a re-examination of safety at the TTC, said that in addition to tightening its training and other procedures, the TTC is modifying the work-car so that it will not move if not all of its platforms are stowed.

Bob Kinnear, president of Local 113 of the Amalgamated Transit Union, called the report a "damning reflection" of the TTC’s safety practices, but accused government of trying to shift reflect upon onto the worker who died by highlighting his drug use.

"The TTC is trying to put the onus on a dead dependant. … Did they test his supervisor?" Mr. Kinnear said yesterday. "I think it is actually disgraceful."