# What is a Lowe's "Code 75"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 18, 2016, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-lowes-code-75/743464 "2016-01-18T00:26:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-lowes-code-75/743464/61 "2016-01-19T22:22:52Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > My brother worked at Kmart around the same time that I worked at Target. He said that people would periodically make pages saying things like “Security to zone 4” and it was funny to see people look around, wondering if they were in zone 4. :o Those sort of announcements are intended as shoplifting deterrents. Anyone shoplifting, or thinking about doing so, would panic and not steal. Or so it was thought. ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-lowes-code-75/743464/62 "2016-01-19T22:51:47Z")
> [@teflon\_grut](#): > > Healthcare employee here - > > Code Red - Fire > Code Black - Bomb Threat > Code Adam - Child Abduction > Code Orange - HazMat Incident > Code Blue - Medical Emergency > Trauma Alert - Trauma Emergency > Code Pink - OB Medical Emergency > Code H - Secondary Helipad Activated > Code Green - Incident Response > Code Violet - Violent Person Response > Code Silver - Weapon or Hostage Situation > Code Brown - Missing Adult > Code Gray - Severe Weather > Code Echo - Prepare Evacuation > Code Evacuate - Evacuate Where I volunteer it is: Code Blue - Cardiac Arrest/Medical Emergency Code Red - Fire Code White - Violence/Aggression Code Purple - Hostage Code Yellow - Missing Person Code Black - Bomb Threat/Suspicious Package Code Grey - Shelter in Place/Air Exclusion Code Green - Evacuation Code Brown - Chemical Spill/Hazardous Material Code Orange - Mass Casualty Incident Those are copied off a little card all staff and volunteers get. I have actually only ever heard Code Blue and Code Red pages (I understand I just missed a Code Orange one day). ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-lowes-code-75/743464/63 "2016-01-19T23:27:28Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > At Community Hospital in Anderson, Indiana the Brahms Lullaby interrupts the usual music when a baby is born in the hospital. A nice touch, I thought. My old hospital did that too, and if twins were born, they would play it twice in a row. During December, it would be the same melody, with a jazzy Christmas vibe. We joked that they should play that death march whenever someone died. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![typoink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-lowes-code-75/743464/64 "2016-01-20T03:18:28Z")
Surprised nobody’s mentioned that (maybe it’s TOO common knowledge), but Walgreen’s uses the code “IC3” over the intercom when three or more people are in line at the register. It’s a signal for another employee to open a second register. And yeah, it’s a pun. “I see three.” Can’t unhear it. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-lowes-code-75/743464/65 "2016-01-20T13:21:13Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > My old hospital did that too, and if twins were born, they would play it twice in a row. > > During December, it would be the same melody, with a jazzy Christmas vibe. > > We joked that they should play that death march whenever someone died. 😛 I spent about six weeks as an all-day-every-day visitor to a cancer ward. I had a similar thought: Roughly speaking, births = deaths. Yes, world population is growing, but most of that is not in the US. And yes, the US population is growing, but most of that is immigration. To within a few percent, US births = US deaths. So every time they played the lullaby I thought of two people: a new infant popping into the world then being wheeled out with Mom to go home, and somebody else leaving the world then their body being wheeled into the fridge in the basement. That thought didn’t improve the experience of hanging out there day after day, week after week. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-lowes-code-75/743464/66 "2016-01-20T13:33:29Z")
Is there a punk-cover of Brahm’s Lullaby they could play for stillbirths? ------\>hellinahandbasket ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-lowes-code-75/743464/67 "2016-01-20T13:39:18Z")
> [@Canadjun](#): > > Where I volunteer it is: > Code Blue - Cardiac Arrest/Medical Emergency > Code Red - Fire > Code White - Violence/Aggression > Code Purple - Hostage > Code Yellow - Missing Person > Code Black - Bomb Threat/Suspicious Package > Code Grey - Shelter in Place/Air Exclusion > Code Green - Evacuation > Code Brown - Chemical Spill/Hazardous Material > Code Orange - Mass Casualty Incident > > Those are copied off a little card all staff and volunteers get. I have actually only ever heard Code Blue and Code Red pages (I understand I just missed a Code Orange one day). Some hospitals use “Doctor” codes–that is, paging a particular doctor, where the doctor’s name is actually a code word. Supposedly this is to avoid alarming patients. One time my mother was visiting someone in the hospital, and heard a page for “Doctor Blue.” Knowing about the use of doctor codes, and also that “Blue” traditionally means “heart attack,” she was puzzled that none of the nurses or other staff seemed to be altering their routines. She was curious enough that she asked about it. One of the nurses told her, “No, that’s not a code. There really is a doctor on staff whose last name is Blue. That page just means he has a phone call.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-lowes-code-75/743464.md?page=3)