She was wearing jeans and a T-shirt in a freezer set to -18C. The chain has now been ordered to pay £800,000
Pret a Manger has been fined £800,000 after a member of staff was left trapped in sub-zero temperatures in a walk-in freezer for 2.5 hours, fearing for her life. A member of staff became trapped in a walk-in commercial freezer typically set to run at around -18 degrees dressed only in jeans and a t-shirt.
To try and keep warm, she tore up a cardboard box containing chocolate croissants to use as cover from the ventilator blowing out cold air but found that her hands were too cold and painful to break the box apart. The worker was eventually found by a colleague, in a state of distress and believing she was going to die. She was taken to hospital where she was treated for suspected hypothermia.
Pret a Manger pleaded guilty and was ordered to pay Westminster Council its full costs, in addition to a victim surcharge, within 28 days. When passing her sentence, the District Judge decided on a starting point of £1.6 million, which was reduced to £800,000 following credit for an early guilty plea and mitigation advanced on behalf of the company.
"We hope the significant fine awarded in court acts as a warning to all businesses and prevents anything similar from ever happening again.
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