Overview
- Fire and EMS dispatch audio published by The Smoking Gun places the incident at about 4 p.m. on Jan. 30 at the Williamsport, Pennsylvania, location.
- Recordings captured a dispatcher saying “a male victim went head first into the fryers” while reporting a chaotic scene with people screaming.
- Coworkers and at least one customer tried to stop the act, and a female employee suffered minor burns while intervening, according to responders.
- The victim was transported to a nearby hospital with severe burns and later died of his injuries, news outlets reported citing authorities.
- The restaurant closed for several days and has reopened, police are withholding the worker’s identity, and an online drug-use claim remains unverified by authorities.