Apparently Ricky wasnt paying attention.

Its always nice to have a clean walk-in freezer, it helps to keep the food fresh, especially at KFC, when theres chicken blood all over the walls. Taking the blood of is easy, with a little bit of bleach, but its not the healthiest thing to be breathing.

Ricky seemed to have forgot this one day, and when asked to clean the freezer, thought it would be ufn to do it alone, with the door closed. After a good 30 seconds, Ricky comes out of the freezer, coughing like hes dying, and he was smart enough to ask us why he was coughing, Ricky was fine, but didn't feel the same about bleach ever again, I think he should definatly get an honorable mention for almost removing himself, hopefully he'll try harder next time

Submitted on 04/21/2005

Submitted by: Chad M
Reference: Personal AccountSeptember 2004

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Daniel said:
Maybe Toss: Lacks Excellence
We get a lot of stories about mixing cleaners, but the freezer angle adds a little.

Kelly said:
Neutral: Personal Account
I'm not sure that bleach in a walk-in would be that big a problem. It's a large area. A little more details please? Like how much bleach he was using, and if he mixed it with anything else, and how large the walkin is.

Jack said:
Neutral: Personal Account
I'd guess that the majority of people don't realize that bleach is a hazardous chemical (much like carbon monoxide), so I'm not really convinced that this is worthy of an award, but I'm willing to go for a Personal Account.

Charles said:
Neutral: Personal Account
The active ingredient in bleach is a perchlorate, which gives off chlorine gas... granted, not enough to be harmful except in a confined space, but enough to be an irritant even out in the open. I'll grant this one a neutral because it is noticeably an irritant in the open... with even a moment of thought, it would occur to you that in a closed freezer it would be much more so.

Tracy said:
Neutral: Personal Account
We have had a lot of stories about chemicals - mostly the combination of different ones

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