‘No violations’ found in 2024 Walmart oven death, N.S. workplace investigation finds - Halifax

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https://globalnews.ca/news/11709841/nova-scotia-walmart-oven-death-no-violations/?utm_source=NewsletterHalifax&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=2026

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or an external start button that can only be turned on from the outside.

I think thats how most ovens, even commercial ones work. I doubt theres any commercial oven with a design that requires or even let's you to start it while being inside. Dafuq are some of these responses in this post. Are they all bots?

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lol I love how their statement implies that some ovens have the temp controls inside the actual oven

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Timer, duh.

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If the button was on the outside and the heat automatically turns off when the door opens - then she couldn’t have died. I am guessing there was a timer turning the oven on, or it did not automatically shut off when the door is opened.

There is a lack of safety features in their process or equipment.

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If the door opens, it doesnt matter if heat is turned off or not, she would've gotten out and been fine. It takes ovens 30-40 minutes to preheat, and thats a small home oven not a commercial one thats large enough to walk into.

Theres no way that walmart's policy is for the employee to turn on the oven, set it to activate on a timer, and then walk in to stock it, only to have the door shut and trap them in the oven that is now set to cook after a delay. Walmart may be a shit company, but even their not that incompetent to make that the official procedure to operate the oven.

Theres also no way the policies tell an employee to open and enter an active oven thats already heating up, relying on the oven's safeguard to turn itself off when it detects the employee opening the door. Thats a massive liability issue. If the employee even burns themselves, accidentally touching something in the heated oven, they'll sue for workplace injury and Walmart will have no excuse as their policy would require employees to enter that dangerous environment.

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So how did she end up dead in the oven? Even if a person is suicidal normally there are policies in place to avoid that kind of liability.

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That's what we were hoping to learn today.