Arby’s employee who died after she was accidentally locked inside walk-in freezer ‘beat her hands bloody’ trying to get out, lawsuit says

• The children of a woman who died in a Louisiana Arby’s earlier this month are suing for negligence.
• The lawsuit claims Nguyet Le died because a broken freezer latch caused her to be locked inside while alone in the restaurant.
• The suit also alleges multiple managers were aware the latch had been broken for at least nine months before Le’s death.

The family of a woman who died earlier this month after she was locked in a freezer in a Louisiana Arby’s is suing the restaurant chain and the store’s franchise owners for negligence and wrongful death.

Local police confirmed to Insider’s Grace Mayer earlier this month that a woman later identified as 63-year-old Nguyet Le was found dead in the freezer of an Arby’s in New Iberia, Louisiana. The lawsuit — filed Thursday by Le’s four children in the district court of Harris County, Texas, where the family lives — provides new details into the events that led to her death, including allegations a latch on the freezer door had knowingly been broken for months.