Obese man cut from chair he was stuck in for 2 years dies; skin fused with maggot-infested fabric
WTRF Ohio man's skin became fused with fabric of his chair after he supposedly sat in it for at least two years.
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A morbidly obese Ohio man who had to be cut loose from a chair he had not left for two years has died, officials said.
The 43-year-old man had been hospitalized since Sunday after his roommates called 911 when they found him unconscious in the living room chair.
Bellaire police had to cut the man free after finding that his skin had fused to the chair's fabric.
They said he sat in his own waste and was covered in maggots.
"The chair was very filthy, a lot of odor to it. Going in the house, the house was not clean," public health officer Jim Chase told WTRF-TV.
"The living room where the man lived in his chair was very filthy, very deplorable. It's unbelievable that somebody lives in conditions like that."
Authorities were forced to cut a hole in the wall of the man's house to remove him to the hospital.
The man - whose name was not released - lived with a roommate and a girlfriend who prepared him food since he was unable to get up.
lalpert@nydailynews.com
A  Ohio man died Wednesday after being found unconscious in his home several days earlier. The man had been sitting in a chair for two years and was physically fused to it when he was discovered by two roommates, one of which was his girlfriend.

Authorities who arrived at the house in  reported seeing the man sitting amidst his own urine and feces, which were infested with . The man's skin had become attached to the recliner's cloth, said law enforcement officers, one of whom had to dispose of his uniform after responding to the home. In order to transport the man to the hospital, officers had to carve out a portion of the wall.

Identified as 43-year-old Richard Hughes, the man died after being taken to Wheeling Hospital in West Virginia. The residence's landlord said Hughes, weighing 348 pounds (157 kilograms), began sitting in the chair after his knees started to hurt, and refused to get up. Hughes' girlfriend told police that she fed him because he was unable to move around.

Jim Chase, a city official, called the room where the man stayed "very filthy, very deplorable" and said it was "unbelievable that somebody lived in conditions like that."


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