I mean, I think I’ve seen half a dozen British mysteries over the decades with a plot like that.
There was an episode of Bones where a body was found in a giant bar of chocolate.
If this was Castle, there would definitely be a joke about someone loafing at work.
Are we all sure that the employee wasn’t a witch and the Walmart a gingerbread house?
That show definitely has its share of horrible wordplay.
Just remember: If you fall into a vat of chocolate, yell “Fire!”
Yeah, a couple places in the store where I work use lock out/tag out procedures. Every so often we get people who treat it like a joke or get careless. It’s a bit like whack-a-mole. The safety gear is there but the next obstacle is getting people to use it consistently.
I’ll note that the picture you posted looks like the oven I’ve seen at every Subway ever, and once I saw that I thought, oh yeah, that oven, duh.
That was my first thought when I saw that picture – any little hole-in-the-wall Subway will have an oven like that. Larger bakeries will have much larger ovens like some of the other ones pictured that you literally can walk into.
The most recent news I’ve seen from Halifax police is that there is no further update and the ongoing investigation may take some time.
I worked at a local bagel bakery/restaurant and we had a revolving oven like the one in @Joey_P’s post upthread.
Industrial Safety is the science of human failure.
What’s the saying? “Safety regulations are written in blood” or something along those lines?
Yes, that originally came out of the aviation side, but it applies universally.
Although the failure often comes from the top.
I wonder if her young age might have been a factor, and/or inexperience.
Where I work many of the big, scary, industrial machines have a minimum age requirement to operate, and in some cases require some formal training with regular reviews. But this happened in Canada which many or may not have similar laws to Indiana, US.
That would still happen postmortem.
But Occam’s Razor does favor “victim put themselves into oven” since it is a simpler setup (requires fewer factors).
Reading one of the articles, it appears her mother was also employed by the Walmart. It’s not clear if they were both on shift together, though.
From a CBC article, “The fundraising drive says the mother became frantic after her daughter didn’t answer her phone during the Saturday night shift. The mother, whose name was not released, eventually opened the walk-in bakery oven at the store and found her daughter’s burned body, it says.”
Another article elsewhere says, “Her mother became worried Saturday when she didn’t see Kaur around the store for an hour and her cell phone was unreachable.”
Many here are incredulous that such a thing could happen as an accident, but I wouldn’t rule it out.
As mentioned upthread, people can try stunts that go wrong, particularly in the instagram age. Or she could have been in there cleaning, say, and passed out. Yes it strains credulity that she would not be immediately visible to the next person to operate the oven, but it seems possible to me in a busy environment, if she fell in an unlucky way, and remember we’re just talking about one event out of thousands of uses of these devices.
Not saying it’s most likely, just again, not ruling it out.
If it was an accident, my WAG is that someone didn’t realize she was in there and pushed the door shut as they walked past it.
If, hypothetically, she was still conscious when someone closed the door on her, what prevented her from pushing the door open? I read someplace that the oven didn’t lock but was there a release inside?
I think it would be easy to panic and not see the release. Or, if something like the passing out hypothetical happened, then the next person pushed a rack in without seeing her, and when she woke she was pressed up against the back with little room to move.
Sorry for how dark this is getting.
I do remember now though, many years ago here in the UK, where there was an accident at some kind of industrial oven which was as grim as this speculation (and had CCTV to prove it), so this shit does happen sometimes. 