Refrigerator death
Death that may occur due to suffocation inside a refrigerator / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A refrigerator death is death by suffocation in a refrigerator or other air-tight appliance. Because, by design, such appliances are air-tight when closed, a person entrapped inside will have a low supply of oxygen. Early refrigerators could only be opened from the outside, making accidental entrapment a possibility, particularly of children playing with discarded appliances; many such deaths have been recorded.[1][2] Modern designs close with a magnetic mechanism that can be opened from the inside, reducing the danger of accidental entrapment.