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Walk In Coolers...........Exiting

NYSED has used that section to require panic bars on the inside of shipping containers used at schools to store materials. I think it is enforceable, at least in NY.

Most coolers have provision for a lock in the factory installed handle.

Got problems with thievery.. my advice is hire better staff or install an alarm.

Can't prevent them from doing something after you leave. Must be compliant when I'm there. And when I come back. Court frowns on willful disregard.
 
I just read this article and thought of you all: http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_17498673?nclick_check=1

Worker trapped in freezer while El Cerrito restaurant fire burns

San Pablo Avenue Chinese restaurant badly damaged

By John Simerman

Contra Costa Times

Posted: 02/27/2011 08:44:45 PM PST

Updated: 02/28/2011 10:29:04 AM PST

Firefighters battling a blaze inside a Chinese restaurant in El Cerrito Sunday morning heard pounding from a walk-in freezer and found an employee locked inside.

The fire, at L & L Chinese Seafood Restaurant on the 10100 block of San Pablo Avenue, started in the kitchen after the worker lit up oil in kettles, then entered the freezer around 8:15 a.m. and could not escape, said Battalion Chief Michael Pigoni of the El Cerrito Fire Department.

Firefighters from El Cerrito and Richmond got the call at 8:41 a.m. and found heavy smoke and flames coming from the roof area and doors on the side and rear of the restaurant, near the kitchen. Responding with five engines, a truck and a breathing support unit, they put out the blaze within 15 minutes, Pigoni said.

The blaze caused major fire damage in the kitchen and smoke damage throughout the restaurant, said Pigoni, who estimated the equipment and structural loss at about $350,000.

The worker had remained locked in the freezer for about 35 to 45 minutes. He left unscathed, Pigoni said.

"It appears he comes in early to start prepping food, gets all the stoves up and running. He had gone into the freezer to get something and the door closed behind him. Something appears to have failed in the latch mechanism. We actually had to pry the door open to get him out," Pigoni said.

"The man was cold."
 
What about a bank vault, would it be treated the same on egress as this freezer?
 
Greetings,

On a larger scale, I used to work maintenance for Borden's Ice Cream in Houston. We had freezers that were -25 to -35 F. Now on occassion we had to go in there for some work on the conveyor system or whatever and I promise that we always made sure there would be a way out. I'm with MC on this. Freezing to death or dying from exposure just isn't my preferred way to go. By the way, one of our maint guys was killed in one of those freezers when it was operation. He was crushed to death in some equipment. Bad seen.

Knowing what I know now, I would have to question their egress routes in much of that facility if it were in my jurisdiction.

Byron
 
Lose the hasp. Get a better cooler, better quality of employees, anything but the hasp... If I really want to get IN your walk-in cooler the hasp wont stop me for long anyway.

Bank vaults are whole different beast than walk-in coolers, and almost impossible to get locked inside one.
 
JBI said:
Bank vaults are whole different beast than walk-in coolers, and almost impossible to get locked inside one.
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Toddler locks herself in bank vault

CONYERS, Ga. - Police are investigating how a toddler was able to wander into a bank vault just as the bank-vault timers activated, locking the girl inside.

Police rushed a technician to the Wells Fargo branch in Conyers at 90 mph so he could drill into the vault lock and rescue the girl.

She emerged at 9 p.m. EST after about three hours inside the vault, "crying a little bit, but doing well," said Deputy Chief Mike Lee of the Rockdale County Fire Department.

Lee said the girl's grandmother is a Wells Fargo employee at that branch, and the girl and her mother were visiting.

"During close-down this evening (about an hour after the 5 p.m. closing time), customers had left the bank.

The toddler walked off and walked into the vault just about the time the vault closed with its time-lock," Lee said.

The mother and grandmother realized quickly the girl had wandered off, Lee said. It was unclear how they found out that the girl was inside the bank vault, although they were afraid that she was. Their fears were confirmed when they heard the girl's cries through the multilayered steel door.

Also, bank employees viewed the bank's surveillance video, which showed the girl walking alone into the vault just before the door closed.

Lee said the girl was not in immediate danger.

"There was plenty of air in the vault for a toddler like that," Lee said. "The size of the vault would provide air for a good, long time."

But he said the speedy police escort of the technician was necessary because "it seemed like a good thing to do to get him in here a little faster in the traffic."

Jay Lawrence of Wells Fargo said "the toddler was safe the whole time. We could hear her, she was crying, which was certainly understandable. There was plenty of ventilation throughout."

The man whom Wells Fargo brought in to drill into the vault was "safe technician" Ron Snively, an independent contractor who knows how to use a drill in just the right spot on a bank-vault door in order to release the lock.

"Well, it's my job," Snively said. " I mean, this is what I do all the time. Other than a child being in there, it was a routine job. ... I do about 20 of them a year."

The girl's mother and grandmother declined comment. Neither the bank nor police released their names.

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2011/03/01/20110301georgia-toddler-locked-in-bank-vault.html#ixzz1FSalpFsi
 
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