Skipped safety inspections by MTA workers may have caused a dangerous platform gap that caused gruesome injuries to a commuter at a Yonkers train station in 2021, her attorney told The Post.

Mara Jill Leibler bashed her face and broke her hand when she tripped on a platform at the Metro-North’s Greystone station – but her lawyer said the hazard likely went unfixed because of MTA inspectors who filed phony safety reports without ever doing required safety checks.

“She just goes flying forward, face first, into the concrete,” said Robert Menna, of Greenberg Law. “She put her hand out and that’s how she broke her hand — and she also hit her face.” 5

Leibler fell in April 2021 when she didn’t see the five-inch gap between the train and platform, caused by a section of track that had s

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