Samuel Macasieb
Director of Industrial Relations Tony D. McKinnon Sr. has asked the Postal Service to explain its protocols for providing emergency medical assistance after learning that a Bay Area postal employee lay dying for as much as 50 minutes before 911 was called. The incident, which occurred in August, came to light in November, when the local NBC television affiliate aired a detailed expose of situation.
“No one saw how Macasieb, 59, was injured but coworkers later said they found him lying on his back, barely conscious, with blood coming from his mouth and ears,” the station reported. “Apparent head trauma left him incapacitated. According to an internal postal service report, employees didn’t call 911 right away. They proceeded to contact several supervisors and managers who then alerted the onsite postal police department, who finally contacted 911. Details in the report show that up to 53 minutes elapsed from the time Macasieb was found to when emergency medical personnel were contacted.
“According to the USPS, this chain of events wasn’t a mistake. It was a policy,” the television report noted. “Employees are routinely instructed not to call 911, but to alert a supervisor first.”
The Postal Service’s written policy says, “Only the Postal Police are to initiate the 911 procedure.”
Samuel Macasieb later died, but the APWU was not notified of the death.
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what the f**** happened to the MERT. program!!!
How about UPS and FedEx ? are they mean to employee like the USPS as well?
The employees didn’t call 911 because the employees are stupid sheep. What difference does postal policy make when someone needs medical attention. The employees who discovered this man should be ashamed of themselves and better hope that karma doesn’t exist. Written policy or not, common sense should have prevailed.
Mgmt. Lied during the interview, we do get phone signal here. The fact that mgmt at our facility is complacent and safety program is bogus here. Sam was a hard worker that deserved better care from it’s mgrs. Mgmt told the media they will change the policy. That has not happened yet. I hope Sams family sues the Agency.
About 2 years ago in June i was working my bid job in Express, at ISC/JFK on Tour Three and a co-worker fell to the ground and he was dying. I never went to my SDO she is a bit doopey, so i called the Port Authority Police and within a few minutes they arrived. However it was too late he died and he was young (54).
We’ve had similar incidents in our office. One mail handler died soon after arriving at the hospital. The 45 minutes spent in the supervisors office didn’t help. Another incident didn’t result in death, but the employee health was affected to the point he never returned to work.
Well, this terrible case is definitely on the entire facility. If one of my coworkers was injured or taken ill enough to merit medical attention I’d call 911 whether management liked it or not. I feel sorry for this man’s family, who has every right to sue the living shit out of the USPS. How callous can you get?
It is definitely a policy. We had a coworker having a stroke (no, I’m not a doctor, but my mother had just had one a few weeks prior) and we were not allowed to call 911 or take her to the ER (which is only 6 blocks away) We had to wait for her sister to show up and take her to the ER. Several coworkers and I made a pact to call 911 for each other
This incident is very similar to what Halen in San Diego p dc mls when a employed was complaning about chest pain and until the senior supervisor arrived to the location were the employee was located and the senior supervisor said don’t call 911 till I said so precious time past employee die on the floor this death of the employee should be on the record this is a case that plain and simple don’t call 911 till the employee is dead can waste money. Idiots
This incident is very similar to what Halen in San Diego p dc mps when a employed was complaning about chest pain and until the senior supervisor arrived to the location were the employee was located and the senior supervisor said don’t call 911 till I said so precious time past employee die on the floor this death of the employee should be on the record this is a case that plain and simple don’t call 911 till the employee is dead can waste money. Idiots
99% of postal mismanagement has no college education…….it shows!
Agree 1000%…No college degree at all for most of them…they are a bunch of lazy workers who kiss ass their management friends so they can move up to be managers….
So sad.
The USPS is obviously concerned with the bottom line as the cost for 911 calls and ambulance service adds up, especially in cases where it is not necessary. However, anytime you have an unconscious employee the 911 should be made immediately!
Hopefully, bringing this story to light will result in changes to the policy.
Policy can be broken whereas procedure is to be followed. If this was just a policy, then many people mucked it up. Not that I would expect postal brass to know the difference. They probably say “policy” and think it is synonymous with procedure. Of this I am almost certain.
This is criminal – what the H— fellow postal employees, you see a guy bleeding from his ears and mouth and you don’t call 911, what the H— is wrong with these people, everyone has a cell phone – how are they going to live with themselves!
To hell with the procedure the mismanagement dopes tell you to follow! this is life or death! call 911 and if they still try to take action against you,F THEM!they won’t win!