100°F | Unexplainable, unsafe - Pizza Hut workers report 'blazing' kitchen heat & illness on shift

Employees at a Pizza Hut in Lafayette LA, say they have been working in unsafe conditions, enduring months of extreme workplace heat due to a broken air conditioning system.

Community members are now raising concerns over the risks posed to both workers and customers.

Shakirra Ferguson, who has been employed at the site for several months, said conditions inside the kitchen have become unbearable.

“The heat in the kitchen it’s like blazing hot. I mean, like, it’s just unexplainably hot in it,” she said. “When you work in a fast food restaurant, you have to be at a steady pace back and forth, running, doing this, doing that, making this, making that, and then when the heat comes in, it just makes it worse. You sweat a lot and then you get it all over the place. So you have to stop, clean yourself back up, get back to work, and you just keep ripping and running in a fast food restaurant mainly every day.”