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Baked to death: Walmart worker trapped in walk-in oven dies Saturday evening

Blunderbuss Firozabad

Blunderbuss Firozabad

Made of Pumpkin pie
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Not the actual oven

Walmart Mumford, Halifax Nova Scotia, Oven Death...

"19-year-old employee dies at Walmart in Halifax, store closed until further notice.
Police were first called to a Walmart on Mumford Road on Saturday at around 9:30 p.m. for a report of a “sudden death.”

In an update on Monday, the force said a 19-year-old woman, who was employed at the store, was found dead."
[The store is still closed today, Monday]

Multiple sources have told Global News the incident involves a large baking oven that was on at the time."

"But the gist seems to be (according to a large Reddit thread) a worker entered the oven to clean it, then somehow got locked in with the oven running. Cooked to death. Walmart attempted to keep the business open and only shut down the store after authorities forced them to."



globalnews.ca

19-year-old employee dies at Walmart in Halifax, store closed until further notice | Globalnews.ca

Walmart Canada says one of its stores in Halifax is 'closed until further notice' after a 19-year-old woman who worked there died at the site over the weekend.
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OMG what a HORRIBLE HORRIBLE death! I have an aversion to heat (I live in the wrong place, at least there's central air everywhere), the horror of being cooked to death....And to add insult to injury Walmart was trying to keep the store open like business as usual?! "Oh well, a 19 YEAR old employee was doing her job and got cooked for it-business as usual hum dee dum" DISGUSTING. That was someone's loved one-so much of corporate America sucks
 
I agree corporate America sucks, but what made her go into a giant oven that was turned on?

I can't imagine why they'd need an oven big enough for someone to get into. My daughter in law works in the deli here and they don't cook anything that requires an oven that big. It's not like they are cooking hogs or cows there, just rotisserie chicken and other stuff that only requires a drop fryer.
 
cubby said:
I agree corporate America sucks, but what made her go into a giant oven that was turned on?

I can't imagine why they'd need an oven big enough for someone to get into. My daughter in law works in the deli here and they don't cook anything that requires an oven that big. It's not like they are cooking hogs or cows there, just rotisserie chicken and other stuff that only requires a drop fryer.
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I am wondering if this super large oven was for in store baked items like breads? OUrs has daily fresh loaves of Italian/french etc breads and it goes FAST daily, sucks by the time I get there at night usually there are slim pickings, and the bread is decent by the standards in the state I now live in but has nothing on a good NYC mom and pop bakery. It says she was in the oven cleaning it-but WTF was it on then?!?!!!!!! Is that normal?It should NOT be if it was then and someone needs to pay the piper for that then-Walmart has more $ than God...
 
cubby said:
I agree corporate America sucks, but what made her go into a giant oven that was turned on?

I can't imagine why they'd need an oven big enough for someone to get into. My daughter in law works in the deli here and they don't cook anything that requires an oven that big. It's not like they are cooking hogs or cows there, just rotisserie chicken and other stuff that only requires a drop fryer.
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Truly, I did not realize these existed.
Walmart does such a raging volume in baked goods I suppose it makes sense to have a large closed off one, so it doesn't compete with the ambient temperature outside.

But the idea...why the hell would it lock? Maybe she inadvertently triggered a baking cycle and it locks then? But from the inside also?

Reddit is going wild with this.
 
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Blunderbuss Firozabad said:
Truly, I did not realize these existed.
Walmart does such a raging volume in baked goods I suppose it makes sense to have a large closed off one, so it doesn't compete with the ambient temperature outside.

But the idea...why the hell would it lock? Maybe she inadvertently triggered a baking cycle and it locks then? But from the inside also?

Reddit is going wild with this.
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Folks! It's the Ronco 3000!
Are you just dying for rotisserie?
It's so easy, a child could do it.

You just SET IT AND FORGET IT!
 
Alxprkrkrls said:
Some Walmarts are like their own cities, if this was the only store in the area I could understand why they have such a huge oven. This so fucked up and honestly not shocking. Walmart is historically awful
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halifax has a population of close the half a million people..not a huge city by some standards but last time i visited there stores were plentiful but i haven't been there since the pandemic so things prob changed as everywhere else
 
thuumpr said:
Folks! It's the Ronco 3000!
Are you just dying for rotisserie?
It's so easy, a child could do it.

You just SET IT AND FORGET IT!
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I had one!!!!!!! That and the knife set... lol The rotisserie worked GREAT for like maybe a year? It's not something you used every day-but after so many uses it only cooked half the chicken-hours of cooking an no clear juices-just pink which we all know you are not suppose to eat pink chicken. Don't ask me why but it's still in my storage, the knives? Rusted, bent and no good-I am done with infomercials! Altho the Emeril Lagasse Duel Fryer is looking mighty cool.... :)
 
Two of my worst nightmares come together to show that sometimes Hell is on Earth....burning alive & being inside Walmart.
Aren't there supposed to be ways to get out if you're trapped inside? Or am I just naive? Then again, a poorly trained teen in a complete panic could make that ineffective. Bless her heart. What a way to go.
 
Aedia said:
Two of my worst nightmares come together to show that sometimes Hell is on Earth....burning alive & being inside Walmart.
Aren't there supposed to be ways to get out if you're trapped inside? Or am I just naive? Then again, a poorly trained teen in a complete panic could make that ineffective. Bless her heart. What a way to go.
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Those ovens and freezers are supposed to have giant release buttons on the inside of the door
 
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Aedia said:
Two of my worst nightmares come together to show that sometimes Hell is on Earth....burning alive & being inside Walmart.
Aren't there supposed to be ways to get out if you're trapped inside? Or am I just naive? Then again, a poorly trained teen in a complete panic could make that ineffective. Bless her heart. What a way to go.
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Ways out? Medium or well done!
 
Blunderbuss Firozabad said:
The buzz now is that it was murder.
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I believe that murder sounds more likely than accident. There are so many fail-safes built into equipment these days that accidentally cooking yourself in and cooking yourself is almost impossible. This thing was not sitting in the middle of a busy factory in the middle of the night with one guy watching out.
 
cubby said:
I believe that murder sounds more likely than accident. There are so many fail-safes built into equipment these days that accidentally cooking yourself in and cooking yourself is almost impossible. This thing was not sitting in the middle of a busy factory in the middle of the night with one guy watching out.
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So she was possibly unconscious or already dead when she was baked!

Those fail safes you mention are usually universally understandable and super obvious.

There have got to be cameras back there...
 
If I know Wal-Mart and I do, I worked there for 4 years, both my sons, both daughter in laws works there or have worked there. There are definitely cameras, everywhere, the obvious one and the not so obvious one, the ones that only Loss Prevention knows about.

And just so you know, WM is the biggest employer in my area, older son trained for management, younger son has worked there for 23 years, one daughter in law for 25 years, retired, and the younger one for about 5. Just about everybody that works retail, cycles thru WM at one time or another.
 
cubby said:
If I know Wal-Mart and I do, I worked there for 4 years, both my sons, both daughter in laws works there or have worked there. There are definitely cameras, everywhere, the obvious one and the not so obvious one, the ones that only Loss Prevention knows about.

And just so you know, WM is the biggest employer in my area, older son trained for management, younger son has worked there for 23 years, one daughter in law for 25 years, retired, and the younger one for about 5. Just about everybody that works retail, cycles thru WM at one time or another.
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If Walmart and Sams Club and all their employees ever took up their arms to overthrow the government? We'd have Sam Walton's face on our dollar bills and be drafted into 4 years of mandatory service as sales associates before you could say "Where did the greeters go?"
 
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