Gursimran Kaur, 19, was found dead on October 19, 2024, in a large commercial oven used for baking frozen bread at the Halifax, Nova Scotia, store, according to VT. She had been working alongside her mother, Mandip Kaur, when the tragedy occurred.Mandip began to worry after she hadn’t heard from her daughter for over an hour during their shift. At first, co-workers assumed she might be helping a customer, but concern grew when another employee noticed liquid leaking near the bakery oven, an indication that something had gone terribly wrong.Mandip opened the oven and made the devastating discovery. “I opened the door and she was there,” she told Daily Mail. “I couldn’t handle myself. I was there on the floor with her for five or 10 minutes. I didn’t know what had happened.” She described a black-brown liquid oozing from the oven, which can reach temperatures of up to 400 degrees.
“She was so happy”

Gursimran’s body, found near the baking racks. Halifax Regional Police conducted interviews and reviewed surveillance footage from the scene. Authorities later announced the death had “been determined not to be suspicious,” according to NBC News.Nova Scotia’s Department of Labor, Skills, and Immigration conducted a separate investigation and also found no workplace safety violations. Officials said the oven was functioning correctly, according to VT.Greg Hanna, the department’s Director of Communications, confirmed the oven “could be opened from the inside” and found no evidence that “violations of occupational health and safety laws [that] contributed to the death.”