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<\/p>\nAn American fast food chain employee has died after throwing himself head-first into a deep fryer.<\/p>\n
The man, who has not been named, removed his clothing in the kitchen before plunging into the vat of hot oil at an Olive Garden in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
State Police confirmed to local outlet The Smoking Gun that the incident was a suicide attempt.<\/p>\n
Emergency services were called to the American chain restaurant shortly after 4pm local time.<\/p>\n
The worker was transported to hospital but succumbed to his injuries.<\/p>\n
Audio from 911 calls revealed the chaotic scene as it unfolded.<\/p>\n
A dispatcher told officers: “Burn victim at the Olive Garden. I don’t have a lot of details, people screaming, some kind of a burn victim.”<\/p>\n
A subsequent call provided more specific information to police.<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania State Police confirmed to local media the incident was a suicide attempt (file photo)<\/p>\n
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The operator told officers: “Male victim went head first into the fryers.”<\/p>\n
Emergency calls painted a picture of confusion and distress at the restaurant as staff and customers witnessed the tragic incident.<\/p>\n
Multiple units responded to the scene following the initial reports of a burn victim.<\/p>\n
A female colleague sustained minor burns while attempting to intervene alongside other staff members and at least one customer who tried to stop the man.<\/p>\n
A second ambulance was dispatched to the Olive Garden to treat the her injuries.<\/p>\n
A spokesman for the Pennsylvania State Police confirmed to The Smoking Gun that the incident “was a suicide attempt”.<\/p>\n
They added: “Out of respect for the individual and their family, we do not release information.”<\/p>\n
Olive Garden has not yet issued a public statement about the tragedy.<\/p>\n
Anyone who is in emotional distress, struggling to cope or at risk of suicide can call the Samaritans anonymously for free from a UK phone on 116 123 or go to samaritans.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An American fast food chain employee has died after throwing himself head-first into a deep fryer. The man,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[139,28,30,29,51377,593,302,301],"class_list":["post-106592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-sgg","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}