GRISLY CORPSE STORAGE

BODIES OF people who have been struck and killed by MTA trains are sometimes stored in back-room facilities — and the grisly remains are visible to workers, according to transit union officials.

Transport Workers Union Local 100 reps said corpses have been stored in bathrooms and break rooms for hours before the medical examiner’s office arrives to retrieve them.

“People eat there, people drink water there, store their clothes there,” TWU station representative Derick Echevarria said Monday. “Nobody should be placed in these rooms.” After the body is gone, it’s up to station cleaners to sanitize the room and equipment — a responsibility Echevarria said cleaners are ill-equipped to handle. A spokeswoman for the medical examiner said its staffers do not clean scenes, but that training would consist of “standard universal precautions like gloves.”

“These guys aren’t trained,” Echevarria said. “They’re not forensic specialists. “They’re not trained in this procedure.”

Vanessa Jones, a station agent and safety inspector at the union, said a worker had to clean the board that held the body of a fellow station cleaner who committed suicide by jumping in front of a No. 6 train at the 59th St. station in August 2015.

“You could see the blood that was left on the board,” Jones said.

The union has fielded about a dozen complaints in the past year, according to Echevarria. Local 100 raised the issue with the MTA twice over the past year, according to an agency official.

“The placement and removal of bodies are handled by NYPD and the New York City medical examiner, and we’re discussing with TWU officials how any of the current practices can be enhanced for the comfort of our workers,” MTA spokesman Shams Tarek said.