• @corroded@lemmy.world
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    541 month ago

    Something isn’t adding up here. The first article I read about this said that there were employees nearby who saw her but were unable to open the door. If I see someone being literally cooked, I’m going to grab the closest metal object and smash the fuck out of the door. I would imagine most people would have the same reaction. Even if it’s a metal door, 4 or 5 people could almost certainly pry it open.

    • @CTDummy@lemm.ee
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      351 month ago

      I did a brief stint working in a bakery. If it’s anything like those oven there’s only a small glass window to see inside. Though I don’t recall them locking, I imagine they would otherwise employees would get blasted with hundred degree heat. They also seem like prying them open would be incredibly difficult. I don’t know how they aren’t like walk ins with an emergency release. I agree still something doesn’t add up.

      • @grte@lemmy.ca
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        141 month ago

        I don’t know how they aren’t like walk ins with an emergency release.

        I can’t imagine it would pass OH&S muster to not have an internal release on a walk in oven. I suspect poorly maintained equipment where the release was broken. Something similar happened to an Arby’s manager last year.

      • @wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
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        101 month ago

        The emergency release on walk-in freezers isn’t great either.

        It can ice up or jam, the handle can be bent, and because the door opens outward all it takes is one poorly placed pallet and you can be trapped.

        When I worked with one my cell phone didn’t work inside either.

        • @AJ1@lemmy.ca
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          61 month ago

          When I worked with one my cell phone didn’t work inside either.

          makes sense, it’s basically a giant Faraday cage

        • @Someone@lemmy.ca
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          21 month ago

          I haven’t worked in many places with a walk in freezer, but the several I have all had alarms in them. Not automatic, but if the door was stuck there was a big red button next to it that would set off a siren and flashing light outside.

  • @WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca
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    531 month ago

    Being found in a Walk In Oven dead and CLOSING THE WALMART while investigating makes me thing something not so good went on.

    • I’m pretty sure walk-in ovens, like walk-in freezers, are supposed to have a few safety features like interior handles that open regardless of any outside lock, alarms, etc.
      This is certainly suspicious af.

      • @nyan@lemmy.cafe
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        51 month ago

        Bad maintenance disabling the safety devices, or grandfathered equipment which didn’t have them, or inadequate employee training on safety. All of those put Walmart at fault to varying degrees. That looks to me like the most likely scenario in the absence of other data.

        Or someone intentionally jammed any safety mechanisms, which would mean that person committed murder or manslaughter depending on the details.

        It’s also possible that the deceased employee panicked when she realized what had happened and failed to operate a safety device she would have known full well was there if her rational brain hadn’t been overwhelmed by her lizard brain. That would be tragic, but not actionable.

        We still don’t know enough.

    • @nyan@lemmy.cafe
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      221 month ago

      The management might have preferred the store closure to having the bakery department marked off with crime scene tape in full view of any customers. And the cops probably appreciated not having a bunch of lookie-loos staring at them across the tape. Plus I imagine that the dead woman’s mother isn’t the only employee dealing with shock/mental health issues because of this. They may not have been able to get enough staff willing to come in to reopen the store immediately.

      (TL;DR: There may well be something ugly going on here, but I don’t think the store being closed is enough evidence to prove that on its own.)

    • @wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
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      81 month ago

      Regardless of foul play, this is awful and deserves a thorough investigation.

      Either the security protections weren’t good enough, protocols weren’t followed, or something else happened that needs to be understood (accidental or otherwise).

  • @AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml
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    421 month ago

    Every detail I read makes this feel more and more like she was murdered. Suspicious as fuck.

  • @Revonult@lemmy.world
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    341 month ago

    This is why Lock-Out Tag-Out (LOTO) is so important.

    Protects yourself protect others. Never go into or work on a machine unless it cannot be energized or stops installed.

    This happens alot in manufacturing esp when people get lazy and don’t follow procedures or management doesnt enforce/train/make it possible.

    • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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      And taking bolt cutters to a lockout lock without a thorough investigation of where the owner of said lock is should be treated as either attempted murder or murder, depending on the outcome.

      Edit: not necessarily applicable to this particular story, but hearing about it being done in some cases pisses me off.

      • Nik282000
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        61 month ago

        If you cut a lock and someone gets hurt or killed there is jail time and employers are aware of this. The bigger issue is that so many employees are either not trained or just do not lock out when they should. My personal lock is so worn that it looks like beach glass but the majority I see “in use” are basically new in box condition.

  • magnetosphere
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    231 month ago

    I want to know how she died. If that makes me a bad person, then so be it.

      • magnetosphere
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        191 month ago

        I was looking at it as kind of “morbid”, but your question is a good one.

    • funkajunk
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      81 month ago

      Curiousity doesn’t make you a bad person, it makes you a person.

    • @AJ1@lemmy.ca
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      11 month ago

      well I mean yeah, as stated in the article that’s what the investigators are trying to determine. it’s pretty much the first step in any investigation like this. just because her body was found in the oven doesn’t automatically mean she was baked alive

  • 4grams
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    201 month ago

    for my first job one of the responsibilities was cleanup after the overnight bakery shift. I used to have to clean out a walk-in oven, usually still warm, always freaked me out a little. That poor, poor girl, that poor, poor family. Simply terrible and tragic.