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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Matthew Weaver

Pret a Manger fined £800,000 after employee trapped in freezer

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The deputy leader of Westminster council said: ‘The shocking details of this case show a lapse of due care and attention’. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

Pret a Manger has been fined £800,000 after an employee was trapped in one of its freezers for more than two hours, where she tried to use croissant boxes to stave off hypothermia.

The employee was wearing jeans and T-shirt when she was stuck in a walk-in freezer, which typically had its temperature set at -18C, in July 2021, Westminster magistrates court was told.

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