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How does this still happen? Emergency stop buttons are cheap, plentiful, and usually legally required.
Have you ever tried to catch one? Those fuckers are fast!
“We are heartbroken and our deepest thoughts are with our associate and their family. We extend our sincerest condolences to those who were closest to them,” the Walmart spokesperson said. “We’re also supporting our associates during this incredibly difficult time and have provided access to 24/7 virtual care and will provide on-site support, including grief counselling.”
Yeah we see how much you give a shit about your AsSoCiAtEs. Yeah I'm sure this is so difficult for you, corporate whitewash mouthpiece.
When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another such injury that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder. But when society xxxv places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live – forces them, through the strong arm of the law, to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual; disguised, malicious murder, murder against which none can defend himself, which does not seem what it is, because no man sees the murderer, because the death of the victim seems a natural one, since the offence is more one of omission than of commission. But murder it remains.
(...) I have now to prove that society in
England[Canada] daily and hourly commits what the working-men’s organs, with perfect correctness, characterise as social murder, that it has placed the workers under conditions in which they can neither retain health nor live long; that it undermines the vital force of these workers gradually, little by little, and so hurries them to the grave before their time. I have further to prove that society knows how injurious such conditions are to the health and the life of the workers, and yet does nothing to improve these conditions. That it knows the consequences of its deeds; that its act is, therefore, not mere manslaughter, but murder, I shall have proved, when I cite official documents, reports of Parliament and of the Government, in substantiation of my charge. That a class which lives under the conditions already sketched and is so ill-provided with the most necessary means of subsistence, cannot be healthy and can reach no advanced age, is self-evident.
It always surprises me how few deaths or major injuries happen in retail environments. There's relatively few hazards but holy shit I've never seen people take their own safety and the safety of their employees so unseriously for the laziest reasons.
Why the fuck wouldn't you engineer a walk in oven to have an emergency lever on the inside?
Or like... A door handle
It would. As well as many other safety features. If we ever hear about what happened, it won't likely be a story of "trapped and couldn't escape".
Walk in freezers don't have handles on the inside either mate there is a very strong chance these don't either.
Why? Capitalism and no oversight regulations with teeth, that's why.
"Trapped in oven and couldn't escape" is not uncommon. I invite you to google and restrict your search to a time before the recent news:
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All this death could literally be solved by a single fucking safety law placed on workplaces.
That entire page you linked is all one single incident of a guy at a kayak factory, and by what you pictured the kayak factory was found guilty of something, which means they weren't doing something correctly or to code.
As to freezers, at least in the US they can all be opened from the inside, latched closed or not. It's actually against building regulations and fire code to have it any other way.
*edit: additional fun fact- the reason your house fridge closes with just a magnet strip instead of a latch mechanism happened like 70 years ago because sometimes kids would climb in them to play or hide (often old ones outside or at junk yards) and die. It was known as "The Refrigerator Safety Act".
a 19-year-old woman
Definitely trying to avoid being accused of killing a kid at work aren't they?
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.”
Multiple sources have told Global News the incident involves a large baking oven that was on at the time.
member of the Sikh community
Sikh's just can't catch a break can they?
I was always nervous to get things from in the walk-in freezer at my college job. A walk-in oven sounds absolutely nightmarish.
Holy shit net lingo is so ingrained now that it took me a while to notice the "roasted" part was literal :(
Oh god, these ovens have always been nightmare fuel for me as I've worked with these in bakeries and large food factories. Always thought that all it would take is a slip really.
What a terrible way to go. :(
Holy fuck I will admit I didn't know we had walk-in ovens anymore.
I haven't been able to find any pictures of people using them but basically this is what were dealing with:
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Edit: I am not sure if the above is for food use or other industrial applications.
Edit: all the bakery specific ones look like they are designed that you wouldn't actually have to go into them, more that you put in and remove a rolling rack from the outside, this this:
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OTOH this https://reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/comments/x630w2/the_walk_in_oven_at_the_bakery_i_work_at/
the belgian fucker in those reddit comments arguing it was all in good fun and totally safe and everybody laughed when they trapped a guy in the walk in oven and TURNED IT ON and he "freaked out immediately when it started trying to rotate"
Working in the Walmart bakery, I'd spend hours in the freezer organizing or counting stock. Standing near or in that oven was the only relief available.
Worst year of my life, they really see and treat you like cattle.
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