A lead engineer on the Toyota Camry Hybrid team, in the midst of preparing for the Auto Show in Detroit, died after working up to 114 hours of overtime in the six preceding months.
They call it karoshi, and it's a real problem in Japan.
He died in January of 2006 at the age of 45. The ruling allows his family to receive work insurance benefits, since he died at home in bed.
A second Toyota employee was also deemed 'worked to death' by Toyota in the past year. A quality control engineer, he worked more than 80 hours of overtime a month for six months before dying at the age of 30 in 2002.
Toyota said they would try to improve their monitoring of employee's health.
Monday, July 14, 2008
Lead Engineer for Toyota Camry Died From Overwork
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