Worker dead at desk for 5 days
(from Birmingham Sunday Mercury - 22 January 2001)
Spare a thought for the brum-dead!
In the Birmingham Sunday Mercury (7th Jan 2001)Worker dead at desk for 5 days
Bosses of a publishing firm are trying to work out why no one noticed
that one of their employees had been sitting dead at his desk for FIVE
DAYS before anyone asked if he was feeling okay.
George Turklebaum, 51, who had been employed as a proof-reader at a New
York firm for 30 years, had a heart attack in the open-plan office he
shared with 23 other workers. He quietly passed away on Monday, but
nobody noticed until Saturday morning when an office cleaner asked why
he was still
working during the weekend.
His boss Elliot Wachiaski said "George was always the first guy in each
morning and the last to leave at night, so no one found it unusual that
he was in the same position all that time and didn't say anything. He
was always absorbed in his work and kept much to himself."
A post mortem examination revealed that he had been dead for five days
after suffering a coronary. Ironically, George was proofreading
manuscripts of medical textbooks when he died.
.... You may want to give your co-workers a nudge occasionally. Find other Health articles
Comments
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Jim: i think he would spell, dont people poop when they die(12/07/2011)
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Asif: I do not believe it to be true. No one noticed him at work, what about his family, relatives, no one looked for him if he didn't reach home. Not possible. The body starts smelling after death and no one noticed that even for 5 days and there was no smell in office.??(03/03/2008)
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Anon: Poor guy i feel sorry for him geez 5 days i took..shows how people are like these days aye(07/01/2008)
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Just Me =): I don't quite believe it ... don't know why :D(04/10/2007)
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Just Me =): I don't quite believe it ... don't know why :D(04/10/2007)
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Joe Moser: Why do you keep this Urban Legend here on this site?(19/04/2007)
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the dude: this is just a stupid urban legend(26/03/2007)
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david tran: ahhhhhhhhhh, he dead(23/01/2007)
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Dick Miester: wow(29/05/2006)
- johnwyn: Very funny, a real belly laugh. (26/11/2005)
- Plano: this is sad! (06/05/2004)
