Horrible accident. I didn’t know walk in ovens existed
This is a commercial bakery oven.
It would be inefficient and extremely dangerous to try and turn a room into a oven.
Anyone worked at Walmart or similar with a walk-in bakery Oven?
Her body was found in the oven, it doesn’t say that she died in it.
I don’t but those are very, very common. You can often see them behind the counter at large stores. My local Meijer and Pick n’ Save (Kroger) have several of them, many of which can be seen by the customers.
Uh, which is why they have been used for decades and are still manufactured and used in vast numbers to this day?
It’s the trying that’s dangerous, not the doing.
It’s not a room. Those are just big enough to hold a rack of sheet pans and rotate it.
I would have to assume there’s some sort lockout/tag out function on the ovens.
I haven’t seen anything yet that mentions if the oven was actually on. The article doesn’t even say that she died in the oven (or that it was in use) just that she was found in it.
What a horrific way to die.
This sort of thing has happened before:
If the person found inside the oven was frozen that would be a “Castle” episode.
I’ve heard about freezer accidents. The door latch malfunctions.
But an oven you can step into boggles my mind.
Anything smaller and you wouldn’t be able to keep up with demand. My little mom n pop store goes through about 400 dozen rolls in the first few hours that we’re open on Sunday mornings. That’s not something you can do in a ‘normal’ oven. Granted, we don’t make them in house, but the bakeries we buy them from have either these (rack) ovens or the revolving bread ovens.
PSA, if you’re stuck in a freezer…first of all, there should be a release from the inside, I believe that’s code. If for no other reason, a lot of those walk in freezer doors are designed to close and latch on their own, even if you’re inside. Second, there’s usually a switch in there somewhere that will shut off the blowers so at least it’ll stop getting colder and buy you some extra time.
Back when I was still working, I supervised the metal shop at Attica at one point. We made things like office furniture and lockers. We had a machine that dried paint; it was a tunnel lined with high intensity heaters with a conveyor belt running through. You would run a freshly painted locker through it and the heat would dry the paint in about a minute.
Some of the guys working in the shop would run through the tunnel as a dare. We strongly discouraged this but apparently that just added to the value of the dare. The reality was a person could easily run through the tunnel without injury - as long as they held their breath and didn’t trip or stumble.
I understand now. There’s just enough room to step inside a commercial oven. When that rolling rack is removed.
The mother said in the gofund that she had to open the door and found her daughter.
Very suspicious circumstances. How did the door close?
Have to wait for more information.
Another big rule (I also supervised the kitchen at Attica at one point) is that you never put anything in front of a freezer door. That could potentially block the door and prevent somebody inside from being able to open the door to get out.
First of all that’s a ridiculous statement.
As for this, as a child I saw the Brady Bunch episode in which Greg and Bobby (the oldest and youngest brothers) were stuck inside the walk-in freezer at Sam’s butcher shop, so when I had summer jobs in restaurants, I checked the latches on the walk-in coolers and freezers very carefully.
Why? Walk in Freezers are large rooms.
Naturally my first thought was something similiar with heating coils. But, understood that would be a very ineffective method.
inside.
I was trying to envision how this could happen. Until I saw a oven with rolling rack. Then it clicked.
I never worked or been around the kitchen of a bakery.