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An employee at a Brooklyn bakery died after being locked inside a walk-in freezer early Thursday morning.
“The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will determine the cause of death,” a department spokesperson shared in a statement to PEOPLE. “The investigation remains ongoing at this time. The identity of the deceased is pending family notification.”
Police say the death appears to be accidental, according tothe New York Times, aslocal station ABC 7reports the man’s identity as Mahamadou Dansogo, a father of five children from Mali.
The NYPD’s Emergency Services Unit, the fire department and the medical examiner removed the the body after the man got stuck when the equipment somehow turned on, the station reported.
The man’s cause of death has yet to be determined, a spokesperson for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner told theTimes, adding that an autopsy would be conducted Friday.
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As the paper points out, deaths from walk-in freezers are uncommon, according tothe Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries.
Dansogo worked the night shift at the bakery, perWPIX, and his family and friends said he enjoyed the job.
The bakery, founded in 1939 in Poland, moved to Brooklyn in 1970 after two decades in Manhattan, and opened its 50,000 square foot space in Canarsie in 2016, per itswebsite.
The company has notably claimed to have sold 100 million black-and-white cookies since 1949.
source: people.com
