HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (FOX Carolina) – After the body of a Walmart worker was found in an industrial walk-in oven, people online are raising questions about how the tragic death could have happened.

On October 19, 19-year-old Gursimran Kaur was found dead in the bakery oven of the Walmart store in Canada where she worked.

Kaur and her mother worked together in the shop on Mumford Road. A GoFundMe organized by the Maritime Sikh Society for Kaur’s family, which raised almost $200,000, said her mother became concerned after not seeing the teenager for an hour and finding her “burnt to death” in the walk-in oven.

The Walmart store has been closed since Kaur’s death.

According to CBC Canada, the Nova Scotia Department of Labour, Skills and Immigration issued a stop-work order at the bakery, but later rescinded the order. The agency said bakery operations can safely resume if Walmart decides to reopen.

TikTok videos of Walmart employees demonstrating safety measures with their stores’ walk-in ovens have gone viral, raising questions about how the tragedy happened. ChrisBreezie559 posted a video that has more than 28 million views of the oven at her work, showing that it turns on from the outside and has a door that is difficult to close.

Another TikTok video with more than 2 million views shows a Walmart worker in her store explaining: the door won’t lock unless it’s forced closed and the oven door has a handle on the inside.

Halifax Regional Police have not publicly released any new information since the initial report of Kaur’s sudden death, saying the investigation “may take a significant amount of time.”

Police urged people to share speculation about the tragedy on social media.

The Hindustan Times reports that Kaur and her mother are originally from Ludhiana in the Indian state of Punjab. They reportedly moved from the United Kingdom to Canada in 2021 and worked at Walmart for two years.

Kaur’s father and brother remain in India.

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