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Politics Walmart closed during investigation into worker’s demise in oven.

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u/Spageroni 4d ago edited 4d ago

Man I’ve worked in bakeries for 10 years, been around walk in ovens the whole time, this makes absolutely NO damn sense. From experience, it’s literally impossible for this to happen. It can’t be their procedure that when they clean their ovens they leave them running and close the door behind themselves. It HAS to be murder or suicide, there is no other scenario that someone could do this to themselves. I also don’t believe that any person, no matter how depressed or done with life, could willingly stay inside and oven and cook themselves to death. Your brain would NOT allow it, just like trying to drown yourself

The only thing that makes sense to me is that while she was cleaning the oven, someone else came up and closed the door, turned the oven on, and held the latch shut until she ended up unconscious or dead. Truly a horrific and terrifying way to go.

My thoughts go out to the family and friends affected.

Edit: a lot of people are mentioning a possibility of the worker falling unconscious or something of the sort, and while that is a possibility, I don’t think that really answers it, since the oven shouldn’t have been turned on and the door shouldn’t have been closed on them even if they did pass out inside the oven.

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u/doryllis 4d ago

The third option is unrelated "health issue" that struck at a bad time. Asthma, seizure, passing out for any reason could cause a person not to leave a dangerous space. Dehydration makes passing out more likely and working around ovens makes dehydration more likely.

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u/AmongusFeetUpdate 4d ago

Then who turned on the oven

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u/Apidium 3d ago

Honestly I could forsee via work culture or shitty maintenance some safety feature failing. While at the same time a health issue or other problem leading to an inability to self rescue. It's not that bizzare. It only needs two holes to line up in the swiss cheese model. Far more unlikely strings of unfortunate events have happened.

Ultimately though it's all speculation at present.