Bakery worker takes followers inside walk-in oven after Halifax Walmart tragedy: 'There's no emergency off-switch'

A bakery idiosyncratic has offered an penetration into however walk-in ovens enactment amid aggravated speculation astir however a teenage Walmart employee became trapped wrong one.

Gursimran Kaur, 19, tragically died inside a walk-in oven successful the bakery conception of the Walmart store she worked astatine alongside her parent successful Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Her decease sparked wide disorder astir however she became trapped and prompted galore radical to uncover they didn't adjacent cognize walk-in ovens existed.

Now, an anonymous American pistillate has shared a bid of clips connected TikTok illustrating however walk-in ovens operate, and taking her followers wrong the alloy box.

She said the videos person not been filmed wrong a Walmart and clarified that she does not cognize what circumstantial marque of oven was progressive successful the tragedy.

But she did accidental that from her experience, astir walk-in ovens bash person akin features.

'There's nary exigency off-switch wrong of the ovens. On the wrong of the doorway determination is an exigency merchandise button, but the fastener is metallic and would beryllium highly blistery to press,' she said.

'I'm not definite astir different companies but we acceptable our ovens to 350 degrees farenheit.'

At her store, she said 'the oven doesn't crook disconnected erstwhile it's opened, it stays connected passim astir of the time until we decorativeness baking everything.'

The pistillate shared different video which revealed the standard of the oven, pushing a ample rack connected wheels wrong of it which could clasp 15 trays of baked goods.

Even with the rack, determination was inactive capable country for a idiosyncratic to measurement inside.

But the pistillate said determination are fewer reasons for a idiosyncratic to ever measurement wrong - particularly if the oven was already on.

'We would not beryllium cleaning the oven erstwhile it's on. The lone different crushed we would beryllium stepping wrong the oven would beryllium to prime up parchment insubstantial disconnected the floor,' she said.

It is inactive unclear however Gursimran Kaur became trapped wrong the oven.

A dispatch telephone archetypal reported by DailyMail.com early this week revealed that determination was a 'female employee locked successful an oven successful the bakery.'

'Oven is on. Unsure if unit are capable to crook it off,' the dispatch serviceman warned.

Kaur's mother, who worked astatine Walmart alongside her daughter, made the distressing find aft conducting a frantic hunt astir the store for Kaur.

A colleague noted 'leakage' coming from the walk-in oven.

'Imagine the fearfulness that her parent experienced - who herself opened the oven,' a spokesperson for the household said successful a GoFundMe appeal.

'As you each know, her charred remains were recovered wrong the walk-in oven successful the bakery aft a fewer hours.'

Kaur's parent is reportedly 'traumatized' by the discovery.

'This family's sufferings are unimaginable and indescribable,' the Maritime Sikh Society Executive said successful the appeal.

Kaur has been remembered arsenic a 'beautiful miss who came to Canada with large dreams.'

Walmart officials said successful a connection 'we are heartbroken and our deepest thoughts are with our subordinate and their family. We widen our sincerest condolences to those who were closest to them.

'We're besides supporting our associates during this incredibly hard clip and person provided entree to 24/7 virtual attraction and volition supply on-site support, including grief counselling.'

Staff rostered connected to enactment this week volition inactive beryllium paid contempt store closures. The store volition stay closed until further notice.