{"id":9204,"date":"2014-11-25T15:17:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T20:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=9204"},"modified":"2014-11-25T15:17:06","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T20:17:06","slug":"apwu-demands-info-on-emergency-procedures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/11\/25\/apwu-demands-info-on-emergency-procedures\/","title":{"rendered":"APWU Demands Info on Emergency Procedures"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span class=\"news-date-inline\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">911 Call Delayed Up to 50 Minutes; Employee Dies<br \/>\n11\/24\/2014<\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/sites\/apwu\/files\/content-images\/SamMacasieb.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland California - Samuel Macasieb, operating a letter sorting machine\" width=\"341\" height=\"192\" \/><figcaption>Oakland, CA. &#8211; Macasieb at a United Postal Service processing and distributiong center.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Director of Industrial Relations Tony D. McKinnon Sr. has<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/resources\/911-mckinnon-letter\" target=\"_blank\">asked the Postal Service to explain its protocols for providing emergency medical assistance<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>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<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/investigations\/USPS-Policy-May-Have-Caused-Critical-Delays-in-Life-and-Death-Situation--282951031.html\" target=\"_blank\">the local NBC television affiliate aired a detailed expose of situation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo 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,\u201d the station reported. \u201cApparent head trauma left him incapacitated. According to an internal postal service report, employees didn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to the USPS, this chain of events wasn\u2019t a mistake. It was a policy,\u201d the television report noted. \u201cEmployees are routinely instructed not to call 911, but to alert a supervisor first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Postal Service\u2019s written policy says, \u201cOnly the Postal Police are to initiate the 911 procedure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"last\">Samuel Macasieb later died, but the APWU was not notified of the death.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>911 Call Delayed Up to 50 Minutes; Employee Dies 11\/24\/2014\u00a0 Oakland, CA. &#8211; Macasieb at a United Postal Service processing and distributiong center. Director of Industrial Relations Tony D. McKinnon Sr. has\u00a0asked the Postal Service to explain its protocols for providing emergency medical assistance\u00a0after learning that a Bay Area postal employee lay dying for as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9206,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9204\/revisions\/9206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}