# Walmart employee found dead in Walk in Oven **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 24, 2024, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150 "2024-10-24T14:46:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/1 "2024-10-24T14:46:55Z")
Horrible accident. I didn’t know walk in ovens existed [This is a commercial bakery oven.](https://www.empirebake.com/lfr-1-single-rotating-rack-oven.html) 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? > **[19-year-old Walmart employee found dead in store walk-in oven in Canada](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/19-year-old-walmart-employee-found-dead-store-walk-oven-canada-rcna176768?origin=serp_auto)** > > Police in Halifax, Nova Scotia, said a cause and manner of death haven't been confirmed.  ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/2 "2024-10-24T14:50:57Z")
Her body was _found_ in the oven, it doesn’t say that she died in it. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/3 "2024-10-24T14:53:24Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Anyone worked at Walmart or similar with a walk-in bakery Oven? 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. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/4 "2024-10-24T14:53:36Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > It would be inefficient and extremely dangerous to try and turn a room into a oven Uh, which is why they have been used for decades and are still manufactured and used in vast numbers to this day? ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/5 "2024-10-24T14:56:00Z")
It’s the trying that’s dangerous, not the doing. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/6 "2024-10-24T14:56:37Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > It would be inefficient and extremely dangerous to try and turn a room into a oven. It’s not a room. Those are just big enough to hold a rack of sheet pans and rotate it. [![](https://images.jdmagicbox.com/rep/b2b/rack-oven/rack-oven-5.jpg) ](https://images.jdmagicbox.com/rep/b2b/rack-oven/rack-oven-5.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/7 "2024-10-24T14:57:05Z")
I would have to assume there’s some sort lockout/tag out function on the ovens. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/8 "2024-10-24T14:59:55Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/9 "2024-10-24T15:01:15Z")
What a horrific way to die. [https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/cp-newsalert-body-of-teen-in-walmart-bakery-oven-was-discovered-by-her-mother/ar-AA1sR4f8?origin=serp\_auto](https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/cp-newsalert-body-of-teen-in-walmart-bakery-oven-was-discovered-by-her-mother/ar-AA1sR4f8?origin=serp_auto) > [@](#): > > Balbir Singh, secretary of the society, says Kaur’s mother is still suffering from shock but has authorized the release of information on her daughter for an online fundraising page. > more than $80,000 as of 11 a.m., says the mother became frantic after her daughter stopped answering her phone during the Saturday night shift. > > The group hasn’t released the name of the mother but says she was the one who opened the walk-in bakery oven at the store and found her daughter’s burned body ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/10 "2024-10-24T15:01:40Z")
This sort of thing has happened before: > **[Bumble Bee Foods, Two Managers Charged in Death of Man Cooked With Tuna](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bumble-bee-foods-2-managers-charged-death-man-cooked-tuna-n349641)** > > Jose Melena was performing maintenance in a 35-foot-long oven when a co-worker filled the pressure cooker with six tons of tuna and it was turned on. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/11 "2024-10-24T15:02:33Z")
If the person found inside the oven was frozen that would be a “Castle” episode. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/12 "2024-10-24T15:04:26Z")
I’ve heard about freezer accidents. The door latch malfunctions. But an oven you can step into boggles my mind. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/13 "2024-10-24T15:05:31Z")
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. [![](https://empirebake.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/ovens-1024x410.jpg) ](https://empirebake.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/ovens-1024x410.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/14 "2024-10-24T15:10:01Z")
Paging @Baker He works at a bakery in a grocery store. Posts here regularly. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/15 "2024-10-24T15:12:40Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I’ve heard about freezer accidents. The door latch malfunctions. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/16 "2024-10-24T15:18:46Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/17 "2024-10-24T15:19:43Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/18 "2024-10-24T15:22:06Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/19 "2024-10-24T15:24:15Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > It would be inefficient and extremely dangerous to try and turn a room into a oven. First of all that’s a ridiculous statement. > [@aceplace57](#): > > I’ve heard about freezer accidents. The door latch malfunctions. 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. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/20 "2024-10-24T15:31:14Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > First of all that’s a ridiculous statement. 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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150.md?page=2)