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so i work at a restaurant.... well mcDonalds. and i herd this actually true story that happened at one of the other stores in my franchise. so this kid got locked in the walk in freezer in the back of the store. it advrages -4 in there. and after a few hours the kid actually fell asleep and never woke up. how would any of you guys survive this situation? i couldn't think of anything.
 
well it depends on how long he was in there and if he was able to keep core temp up and also what he was wearing cuz if he was wearing shorts and a tshirt a lot less time between ur core temp droppin and you not waking up if he was able to keep his core temp he might hav been able to surive but hard to say for sure
 
Start knockin crap over, somones bound to hear you. If not, the customers would think something was up. Could he make a call in there one wonders?
 
Aren't those commercial freezers required by law or O.S.H.A. to have an inside handle or latch for just such a case? I could be wrong, but that seems like a accident & law suit waiting to happen. Or did something happen to the kid & he was physically unable to open the door?
 
Fonly said:
Start knockin crap over, somones bound to hear you. If not, the customers would think something was up. Could he make a call in there one wonders?
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i know in the one in my store i dont have service but i have an i phone so i never do
 
JUST1MOR said:
Aren't those commercial freezers required by law or O.S.H.A. to have an inside handle or latch for just such a case? I could be wrong, but that seems like a accident & law suit waiting to happen. Or did something happen to the kid & he was physically unable to open the door?
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i am not sure the exact details on that but your are probably right about osha but if were honest most people who work under osha neglect it every now and again.
 
I was just talking about the freezers with one of the guys at our local convenience stores. They are cold in there. They are also all supposed to have a way out from inside. Wouldn't hurt to have some kind of alarm.

I would like to see some documentation of a story like that, though. Rumors abound.
 
i think i'd probably try and short out/bust the cooling system in the fridge or cut through the rubber seals around the doors and yell like hell.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
I was just talking about the freezers with one of the guys at our local convenience stores. They are cold in there. They are also all supposed to have a way out from inside. Wouldn't hurt to have some kind of alarm.

I would like to see some documentation of a story like that, though. Rumors abound.
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i was skeptic at first too lol i guess they just talked me into beliveing it. your right though i probably should look into it more see what i can dig up... sherlock Holmes here i come
 
Esav Benyamin said:
I was just talking about the freezers with one of the guys at our local convenience stores. They are cold in there. They are also all supposed to have a way out from inside. Wouldn't hurt to have some kind of alarm.

I would like to see some documentation of a story like that, though. Rumors abound.
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Esav, If this story isn't some form of urban legend & something did happen to that kid, there are about a gazillon lawyers who are advertising on t.v. right now who would be at that kid's house with contingency forms the next day. I just can't see a major corporation like McE D's putting something like this in there franchises. Wouldn't the manager on duty realize he had a worker he had not seen in awhile & wonder where he disappeared to ???
 
man getting stuck in a freezer at McDonald's I cant think of a worse death...Mayor McCheese better get ready for a law suit. seriously the locks/latches on those things are weak you could body slam one open in a few tries. or better yet just call the hamburglar or the Grimace they were always good at breaking into/out of crap and stealing stuff.
 
There hasn't been a commercial freezer made since the 1950s that doesn't have an obvious push-lever on the inside of the door. All you have to do is lean against it to open the freezer from the inside.

It's possible for boxes to fall in the freezer, hit the door lever, and open it. You come in the next day and all your product is thawed and ruined, and your freezer motor burned out.

It is, however, possible to put a screwdriver in the security lock hole of the freezer door, which defeats the safety lever. However, kicking the door release lever will "pop out" the screwdriver or other obstruction so long as it can be removed.

It's very hard to get trapped in a freezer. That said, if the kid was an idiot, didn't know about the lever, and the lights were off, he might not see it. However, I think nearly everyone, idiot or otherwise, would simply yell his head off. You can definitely hear through the door (inside and out of the freezer).
 
i worked at a summer camp where all the buildings dated back to the '60s or so, and even there the walk ins had the normal latch, and then there was a LARGE push knob above it that would unlatch the door.

you could lock people OUT of the freezer/cooler, but it was impossible to lock someone IN without physically barricading the door.

also had a friend who worked in a mini mart that was probably built in the '70s and the cooler there had the same kind of latch.

can you get some pix of the inside of the McD's cooler door please?
 
I got locked in a bathroom once, kind of a crappy deal, with two 2.5 inch thick oak doors. I was in there a good four hours. At first I tried taking a nap in the tub til someone came, but when you're locked in a small bathroom it's kinda hard to relax. After turning the fan on for some circulation, I took apart the vacuum and used the roller to pound off the hinges on the door, which in turn allowed me to shift the door far enough to the side to reach the bolt and flip it. Instead of starting a fire by any means possible, since most freezers tend to coat everything with frozen condensation and it'd be damn near impossible to start anyway, I'd do anything and everything necessary to get the freezer door off, escape through a vent, anything.
 
The freezers/refrigerators I have worked with, all had a firemans axe inside! If I couldn't get through the door, I would go through the wall, and/or demolish the refrigeration unit. Security would come and lock them at night, so if you were working late, you had better darn well prop the door open or things could get interesting. We eventually trained security to check inside first, but nobody was stupid enough to count on that....

The freezers (-40degrees C) would always vacuum for a minute or two after closing the door, making it very difficult to get the door open. This is becasue the warm air would rush in, then shrink from the cold when the door was closed....causing the vacuum. You just had to be patient, unless you were willing to put your shoulder into it. Petite ladies had to prop the door open, which just got things all iced up inside all the faster.

Somebody once put a package in the freezer that contained dry ice (frozen CO2). The freezer is sealed, so the CO2 would sublimate and fill the freezer, and could potentially cause someone to pass out inside. Had to watch out for that one too.
 
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