From Delish
Every McDonald’s in Peru has ceased operations for 48 hours after two teen workers died after being electrocuted by a soda machine last Sunday.
Alexandra Porras Inga and Gabriel Campos Zapata died early Sunday morning while they were working an overnight shift at a McDonald’s in Lima, Peru, according to The New York Times. Inga was cleaning a soda machine when she was electrocuted by a loose wire and when Zapata attempted to help, he was also electrocuted, police told The Guardian.
Inga’s mother told The New York Times that she received a call Sunday morning from another McDonald’s employee telling her the news.
“Ma’am, there’s been an accident,” said the employee, according to Johana Inga Argote. “Your daughter is dead.”
McDonald’s, which is operated by the company Arcos Dorados in Peru and many other locations in Latin America, released a statement on Twitter Monday saying it was closing all its locations in Peru for 48 hours. Reuters reported that employees would be paid during the mourning period.
“We share the sorrow and extreme pain of the affected families,” the statement said in part, according to a translation by the Times.
“We are working to determine the details of what happened and will contribute with everything necessary in the investigation,” the statement continued, according to Business Insider.
Peru’s public prosecutor’s office is investigating the workers’ deaths, according to the Guardian, and Pueblo Libre’s municipality shut down the restaurant that was the site of the electrocution for safety violations.
The incident sparked demonstrations outside the restaurant on Tuesday, where people gathered in protest of unsafe working conditions.
“The police have carried out all the proceedings. And we as a company have complied with giving them all the information and access to the required spaces of the establishment,” McDonald’s legal representative Ricardo Elias said, according to the Guardian.
Johana Inga Argote told local news outlets that her daughter had told her she worked 12-hour shifts, and that she didn’t have the proper safety equipment while cleaning.
Superintendencia Nacional de Fiscalización Laboral del Perú, the country’s workplace safety office, is opening a 30-day investigation into the incident and if found responsible, McDonald’s Peru could face a fine of 189,000 soles or $56,663.
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