Worker Dies in Cubicle, Not Found for Day

LA County employee Rebecca Wells, 51, found dead at desk
By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff
Posted Feb 16, 2011 8:45 AM CST
Worker Dies in Cubicle, Not Found for Day
Wells was working in a building with around 1,000 cubicles, a county spokesperson says.   (Shutter Stock)

A Los Angeles County employee lay dead and slumped over her desk in an office cubicle for what could have been as long as a day before anybody noticed, police say. Rebecca Wells, a 51-year-old auditor who had recently become a grandmother, was found by a security guard Saturday afternoon, KTLA reports. She had last been seen alive at 9am Friday morning, say detectives, who suspect she died from a stroke or heart attack. (Click here for another depressing work-related story.)

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