If the cooler is somewhere else and you can't leave, the entire anvil subplot feels superfluous regardless.
Though if the medicine is literally required for you to live, I'm fairly sure your boss would have no legal recourse to stop you from leaving to go get it, and would potentially open themselves up to civil lawsuits if they attempted to enact punitive action on you for leaving (and straight up criminal liability if they attempted to physically stop you from leaving).
There's also the presumption that if you need a specific medication to survive and lack access to it, it's not a magical miracle drug that only exists in your cooler and nowhere else on Earth, so it should theoretically be possible to go to a hospital, tell them what your condition is, and they would likely have the same sort of medication on hand to treat you to prevent you from redlining.
But yeah, if the anvil was literally the only thing keeping you from the drugs, it shouldn't be that hard to knock the anvil over. Or even potentially lift it if it's small enough, because smaller anvils can weigh as little as 60lbs, and even up to 120lbs shouldn't be
that
difficult to lift, turn, and drop (and if it was TOO much heavier it's probably already crushed your cooler and everything inside of it anyway).
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