Dead 19 yr old found inside Walmart walkin UPDATE

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Walmart employee found dead inside walk-in oven at Canada store

USA TODAY

Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY

Updated October 23, 2024 at 9:27 AM


Police in Canada continue to investigate the death of a 19-year-old Walmart employee whose body was found Saturday inside a store's walk-in bakery oven.



The Walmart store, located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, remains closed after the woman was found dead around 9:30 p.m. local time Saturday, Halifax police said Monday. In an update Tuesday, police identified the woman as an employee of the store and confirmed she was found in a walk-in oven of the store's bakery department.



Investigators have not yet determined the cause or manner of the woman's death, nor released her name to the public. A Sikh leader in Halifax identified the woman as a member of the Sikh community to CBC.



"The investigation is complex and involves several partner agencies," Halifax police said in a statement. "An investigation of this nature may take a significant amount of time."



Walmart in Canada remains closed amid death investigation

In a statement to USA TODAY, the Nova Scotia Department of Labour, Skills and Immigration confirmed that a stop-work order was issued Tuesday for the bakery and one piece of equipment at the Walmart store.



"We extend sympathies to the employee's family at this incredibly difficult time," the department said in a statement. "As this is an active investigation, we cannot release further details at this time. Please note, workplace investigations are complex and can take time."



Walmart spokeswoman Amanda Moss told USA TODAY that the store is closed until further notice amid the investigation. Multiple outlets reported that the company is providing access to 24/7 virtual care to employees and providing on-site support, including grief counselling.



"We are heartbroken and our deepest thoughts are with our associate and their family," Moss said in a statement. "Our focus remains on taking care of our associates and making sure they have the support they need."



This story has been updated to add new information.


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I wonder if the door to the oven was locked from the outside & she couldn't get out? Or it malfunctioned from the inside? If so, WM is in big trouble.

Either that or there's a maniac on the loose.

[clarencebunsen]

I search for a bit this morning and didn't find anything about any mechanical malfunction yet. I did learn that her body was found by her mother who worked in another department at the same store and became concerned when her daughter didn't answer her cell phone.

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I feel sorry for the mother. I still can't understand why the girl even walked into the oven in the baking department.

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I have never heard of a "walk-in" oven, and why in the world would Walmart have need for one? I am sure that just about every Walmart store does a large volume of celebratory cake sales for birthdays, retirements, etc, but an oven big enough to actually walk into? I found images of walk-in ovens of various sizes and configurations.

www.bing.com/images/search?q=photos+of+a+walk-in+oven&qpvt=photos+of+a+walk-in+oven&form=IGRE&first=1

It seems to me that any such item would have a safety device installed to open the door from the inside, such as the safety devices incorporated into the doors of walk-in coolers and freezers.

What next? Walk-in deep fryers for high volume chicken wing businesses?

I guess I never envisioned any need to walk into a commercial oven when there are so many other ways to load and unload such an oven with a slow-moving conveyor like so many commercial bread bakeries use.

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I wonder if she was a bran or corn variety

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Walmart employee looked for her daughter for hours before finding her ‘charred remains’ in the store’s walk-in bakery oven

BYSasha Rogelberg

October 25, 2024 at 11:35 AM EDT



The 19-year-old Walmart employee who was found dead inside a Canada store bakery’s walk-in oven has been identified as Gursimran Kaur, according to a GoFundMe page created by a member of the Maritime Sikh Society in Halifax.



Kaur’s body was discovered Oct. 19 at a Walmart on Mumford Road in Halifax, according to a Wednesday statement from the Halifax Regional Police.


“The woman, who was an employee of the store, was located in a large walk-in oven belonging to the store’s bakery department,” the statement said. “It is important to note that the investigation has not yet reached a point where the cause and manner of death have been confirmed.”



The Halifax Regional Police told Fortune it has no updates on the investigation at this time.



According to the GoFundMe page, Kaur’s mother, also a Walmart worker, was unable to locate her for over an hour and could not reach her over the phone, on the night her “burned to death” body was found.



“Mother started panicking as it was unusual for her to switch her phone off during the day,” the page said. “She reached out to the onsite admin for help. As you all know now, her charred remains were found inside the walk-in oven in the bakery after a few hours.”



Kaur and her mother had been working at the Walmart location for two years, the GoFundMe page said. They emigrated from India to Canada about two to three years ago. Kaur’s father and brother are still in India, and the Sikh Society is working to bring them to Halifax “as soon as possible.” The online fundraiser has brought in over $140,000 in two days, meeting its initial fundraising goal in 10 hours.



“No one should ever die at work,” one commenter wrote on the GoFundMe page, “And no one should ever see their child in that state.”



A Walmart spokesperson told Fortune the store is “temporarily closed as we cooperate fully with the investigation.” The company has offered counseling services to employees following the tragedy.



“We are heartbroken and our deepest thoughts are with our associate and their family,” the spokesperson said. “Our focus remains on taking care of our associates and making sure they have the support they need.”



Locals have left flowers and notes outside the closed Walmart to pay respects to Kaur and her family.



Balbir Singh, the secretary of the Maritime Sikh Society, who has been in touch with Kaur’s mother, told CBC that the local Sikh community is grieving the loss and police local investigators have a responsibility to relay their findings to the public.



“It’s a really tragic incident and everybody is deeply hurt by this, and we are waiting for the police investigation to come out,” Singh said. “We would like to know what happened to this young woman.”



Wow at what temperature was the oven

fortune.com/2024/10/25/walmart-employee-bakery-oven-death-halifax-gursimran-kaur-gofundme/

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WalMart is "heartbroken & saddened" blah blah blah but will now spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees defending a wrongfull death lawsuit which is surely to come because of their negiligence so that the family doesn't receive a dime. And they'll blame the victim.