Halifax Walmart reopens more than 3 months after in-store death of employee

CITYnews halifax / By The Canadian Press, Mark Hodgins

A Halifax Walmart has reopened this week more than three months after a 19-year-old woman was found dead inside the store’s walk-in bakery oven.

The Mumford Road location was closed after the employee’s death on Oct. 19, and the store later said the oven had been removed. A police investigation determined there was no evidence of foul play in the woman’s death.

The Maritime Sikh Society identified the woman as Gursimran Kaur, a Sikh woman originally from India, who had immigrated to Canada with her mother.

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A GoFundMe set up to support the family of Kaur raised $194,449.

According to the fundraiser, Kaur’s mother also worked at the Walmart store located on Mumford Road in Halifax’s west end. Both mother-daughter had worked there for the last two years after they came to Canada with “big dreams.”

Nova Scotia’s Labour Department lifted a stop-work order last fall after officials determined the store had complied with safety standards.

The department says its workplace investigation is still ongoing.

Walmart had said all employees at the store were paid throughout the closure.