A Pfizer human resources executive, Lois Baumerich, died of a heart attack she suffered when a steam pipe exploded in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, July 18.
Baumerich’s death was the lone fatality of the explosion, which sent tens of thousands of workers scrambling for safety at the height of the evening rush hour.
Minutes before the explosion, Baumerich, who was director of employment compliance at Pfizer, was on the phone planning an upcoming conference in New York for the National Industry Liaison Group, an organization promoting workplace equality, according to press reports.
Baumerich, who was 51 and lived by herself in New Jersey, was a board member. She helped found the group, according to its Web site.
Baumerich worked for 28 years at AT&T before retiring in January, a spokesman for the company wrote in an e-mail.
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