Current Events > Should industrial-sized freezers have panic buttons in them?

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Why don't they? Safety-to-cost ratio not working in favor of the business installing the freezer?

Inspiration for topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ccSBpD-H6g&

Who needs to install anything like that when you can just let the employee die, pay the paltry fine, and then hire a 15-year-old on the cheap to replace them?

That's such nightmare fuel

As soon as I clicked play I said "oh shit am I gonna get Fox news all over my youtube now" lol

I've been inside freezers with doors that have a knob or button to press to open the door from the inside, I have no idea why this isn't standard. What reason is there to not include a way to open it from the inside?

it sounds like the freezer did have a latch, but it was broken and the management didn't wanna pay to fix it. so they literally prioritized profits over safety and it cost a woman her life. they should be sent to prison.

so yes, it should be OSHA requirement that all walk-in coolers. etc have a working escape latch.

Giant_Aspirin posted...

it sounds like the freezer did have a latch, but it was broken and the management didn't wanna pay to fix it. so they literally prioritized profits over safety and it cost a woman her life. they should be sent to prison.

so yes, it should be OSHA requirement that all walk-in coolers. etc have a working escape latch.

Oh damn, well yeah they don't have a hope in winning that case if that's true. Rip Arby's.

Anything humans can physically enter should have a means of exiting

LoveLikeJazz posted...

I've been inside freezers with doors that have a knob or button to press to open the door from the inside, I have no idea why this isn't standard. What reason is there to not include a way to open it from the inside?

wait, is that not standard?
sounds like a huge safety risk

i did some digging and found an article that talks about other instances of this happening.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arbys-freezer-death-lawsuit-nguyet-le/

In 2017, the family of Carolyn Robinson Manghan, a 61-year-old kitchen worker who died after being stuck in a freezer for 13 hours, sued the Atlanta hotel where she worked. The suit alleged there were problems with the freezer at the Westin Peachtree Plaza hotel.
Inspections of the freezer after her death showed the door opened properly each time. But three weeks later, the exit button malfunctioned during another inspection. Two people were trapped and banged on the door to get help. The hotel was then fined more than $12,000 by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration, or OSHA.

their negligence lead to someone's death and their consequence? $12,000 fine. jfc.

ROBANN_88 posted...

wait, is that not standard?
sounds like a huge safety risk

I figured it should be but assumed it wasn't because of this incident. I didn't realize there was a latch but it was just broken.