Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe NEW YORK, May 4 (UPI) -- A caught-on-camera New York subway explosion was sparked when a motorman attempted to dislodge a garbage can tossed onto the tracks. A video posted to YouTube Sunday shows the motorman using a piece of wood to attempt to free the garbage can trapped under the 6 train at the Cypress Avenue station when the bin's proximity to the third rail caused it to shoot off sparks around the Metropolitan Transportation Authority worker. Advertisement Kevin Ortiz, a spokesman for the MTA, said the motorman was not seriously injured in the blast. Ortiz said the garbage can thrown onto the tracks was the latest in a string of vandalism incidents on the city's subway tracks. "We continue to work with [the] NYPD who have already arrested individuals a couple of weeks ago," Ortiz told WPIX-TV. Read More Swedish police officers break up New York subway fight New York MTA probing video of explosion on subway tracks 'Subway surfing' kids photographed on New York train Man drives car on train tracks to underground station