A worker died after getting locked in a walk-in freezer at a Brooklyn bakery renowned for its black-and-white cookies.
The 33-year-old man was found by co-workers around 8:45 a.m. Thursday at the East Flatbush facility of Beigel’s bakery. He is thought to have gone into the freezer around 3 a.m. to clean it.
A co-worker told the New York Daily News that the dead man was an immigrant from Africa who had been on the job three months.
Authorities have not released his name or an official cause of death.
Beigel’s, which makes a wide range of breads and desserts, is best-known for its signature black-and-white cookies, sold through retailers across the country.
Its website says the bakery was established in Manhattan by a Polish immigrant family in 1949 and moved to Brooklyn in the 1950s. The East Flatbush facility opened in 2016.
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